{"id":1081306,"date":"2026-07-10T20:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1081306\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:51:17","slug":"meta-stock-turns-positive-on-the-year-on-data-center-plans-new-ai-model-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1081306\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta stock turns positive on the year on data center plans, new AI model pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meta (META<\/a>) stock climbed higher on Friday, as the company revealed a handful of potential new revenue streams that could help offset its prodigious spending on its AI buildout. <\/p>\n

Shares of the social media giant rose more than 5% as of midday, turning the stock positive year to date. Meta’s stock was down year to date on concerns about rising capital expenditures and questions about returns on its massive AI investments. <\/p>\n

On Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg in an interview<\/a> that the company is exploring renting its own AI computing power to third parties.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

While Zuckerberg didn’t say how exactly Meta would sell its data center capacity, it could either serve up and power AI models from competitors to its customers, like Amazon’s (AMZ<\/a>) AWS, or simply sell access to its AI chips and servers like a neocloud provider. Meta announced on Wednesday that it will build a new data center in Canada, its 33rd such facility. <\/p>\n

AI companies have repeatedly told shareholders that they are resource constrained on AI, and need more computing capacity to keep up with customer demand. If Meta grabs a slice of the cloud computing market, it could provide a hot, new revenue stream outside of its advertising business. <\/p>\n

In addition to the potential data center business, Meta on Thursday announced its Muse Spark 1.1 AI model, as well as a pricing structure for how it will give developers access to the software that dramatically undercuts competitors like Anthropic (ANTH.PVT<\/a>) and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT<\/a>) on the cost of input and output tokens. <\/p>\n

Rolling out a new, capable AI model would normally provide a vote of confidence for Meta’s Meta Superintelligence Labs efforts on its own, but its pricing is the bigger story. <\/p>\n

Tokens are a unit of measurement in AI models. Each token generally represents pieces of words or phrases. Input tokens are the questions you ask a chatbot or commands you give an AI agent. Outputs are the responses a model spits out. <\/p>\n

Meta says it will charge developers $1.25 per million input tokens<\/a> and $4.25 per million output tokens. Anthropic currently charges $5 per million input tokens<\/a> for the model and $25 per million output tokens for its Opus 4.8 model, which Meta compares with Spark 1.1. <\/p>\n

In a post-tokenmaxxing world, Meta’s less expensive Spark 1.1 could attract price conscious developers who don’t need the raw power of something like Anthropic or OpenAI’s most powerful models. <\/p>\n

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