Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion

Meta Platforms is in talks to build a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence endeavors that would dwarf anything the company has done to date and would be among the biggest of its kind, according to two people who have spoken to Meta executives about it. Based on the number of chips and the amount of power the company is discussing for the campus, it could cost more than $200 billion, one of these people said.

Meta’s proposed new data center campus, which hasn’t previously been reported, would be several times larger than a new AI data center in Louisiana that CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed last month, which he implied would be about four miles long. (Though Meta said that data center project would cost $10 billion, it is unclear what components that figure included.)