Meta's founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US. The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, Zuckerberg said.

According to Zuck, “Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.” According to a report from SemiAnalysis, an AI research firm, Prometheus is being built in Ohio. Another one of its clusters,

MARK Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive artificial intelligence (AI) data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.