US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump has announced that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to make a huge investment in AI. Trump confirmed that Meta has made the commitment to spend $50 billion on its new AI data centre. Trump made this announcement during cabinet meeting. As reported by Bloomberg, Trump held an image during the meeting which he claimed was given to him by Mark Zuckerberg. The image shows a data centre superimposed over Manhattan. However, Meta has not officially confirmed the figure. The facility, described as a multi-gigawatt titan cluster, will support the company’s ambitious AI initiatives, including its newly formed Superintelligence Labs division. As part of its broader AI strategy, Meta plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming years, reflecting the scale and urgency of its vision.
Donald Trump reveals Meta’s AI data centre plan
US President Donald Trump described the investment as the “the biggest AI data center in the world.” As per Bloomberg, Donald Trump said, “When they said $50 billion for a plant, I said, ‘What the hell kind of plant is that?’”, holding up a graphic he said was given to him by Mark Zuckerberg. If the $50 billion figure is accurate, then it would dwarf previous infrastructure investments by Meta. Lately, Meta has been expanding its AI research and development, including work on Llama models and custom silicon.
Mark Zuckerberg bets big on superclusters to drive Meta’s AGI ambitions
Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Meta is building several massive AI compute clusters, each with the energy footprint of a small city. One such facility, Prometheus, will be the company’s first multi-gigawatt data center, while Hyperion is designed to scale up to 5 gigawatts over time.These efforts are intended to support the creation of superintelligent AI systems—machines capable of outperforming humans in a wide range of tasks. To fund this vision, Meta raised its 2025 capital expenditure estimate to between $64 billion and $72 billion. Zuckerberg cited the company’s strong ad revenue, $165 billion last year, as a key enabler of such spending. “We have the capital from our business to do this,” he told investors.