Meta unveils 'Meta Compute' initiative to build AI infrastructure

Core Insights - Meta has launched the "Meta Compute" initiative aimed at building artificial intelligence infrastructure and managing its global data centers and supplier partnerships to achieve superintelligence [1][3] - CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the initiative will be co-led by Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross, focusing on technical foundations and strategic capacity planning [2] - Meta is significantly increasing investments in frontier AI, planning to build tens of gigawatts of energy capacity this decade, with a long-term goal of hundreds of gigawatts [3] Investment and Infrastructure - The new computing power targets are expected to consume electricity equivalent to small cities or countries, raising concerns about resource exploitation [4] - Meta has committed up to $72 billion in capital spending for 2025 to support these AI projects [4] - To secure long-term electricity supplies, Meta has entered into 20-year agreements to purchase power from three Vistra nuclear plants and is collaborating on projects for small modular reactors [5]