Goal Plan to spend up U $ 65,000 million this year to expand your infrastructure of Artificial Intelligence (AI)according to CEO on Friday Mark Zuckerberg, with the aim of strengthening the company’s position in front of their OpenAi and Google rivals in the race to dominate technology.
As part of the investment, goal The hiring will increase for artificial intelligence positions and build a data center of more than 2 gigawatts that would be large enough to cover a significant part of Manhattan.
The company -among the main buyers of the coveted chips of NVIDIA- They aim to finish the year with more than 1.3 million graphic processors and plan to put around 1 GW of computer power in 2025.
“This will be a decisive year for AI”Said Zuckerberg on a Facebook post. He added: “It is a huge effort and, in the coming years, will boost our main products and businesses.”
Large technology companies have been investing tens of billions of dollars to develop AI infrastructure after OpenAi’s chatgpt success.
Strong investment in artificial intelligence after Donald Trump’s return to power
The finish line occurs just a few days after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle will form a company called Stargate and will invest US $ 500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure throughout the United States.
SoftBank executive director, Masayoshi arejoined Trump for the announcement, along with Sam Altman of Openai and Larry Ellison of Oracle. Likewise, companies are expected to invest U $ S500,000 million In Stargate in the next four years.
“China is a competitor, others are competitors. We want to be in this country and we are making it available. I will help a lot through emergency statements, because we have an emergency, we have to build these things. So they have to produce a lot of electricity. And we will make it possible for this production to easily, in their own plants if they wish“He said. He added:” What we want to do is keep it in this country. “
In the informative session, Ellison said that 10 data centers were already being built for the project in Texas and that it was planned to build more. As he revealed CBS NewsStargate would begin with the project in that state and, over time, It would expand to other states.
In that sense, the Oracle manager added: “AI is an incredible promise for all of us, for each American.”
For his part, Altman said that probably “This will be the most important project of this era”and Trump said he would create “More than 100,000 American jobs almost immediately.”
Finally, the Chatgpt creator declared: “I think that as this technology advances, We will see that diseases are cured at an unprecedented rate“
Source: Ambito
