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Meta targets tens of gigawatts of infrastructure capacity this decade
Friday, January 9, 2026 at 02:30 PM
Meta plans to develop tens of gigawatts of data center power capacity during this decade, with goals to scale to hundreds of gigawatts in the long term, positioning its infrastructure investment and engineering as a core strategic advantage.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has detailed an unprecedented infrastructure roadmap, targeting tens of gigawatts of power capacity this decade and hundreds of gigawatts over the long term. This strategy positions physical compute capacity as a core strategic moat, shifting the company toward a more vertically integrated industrial model. The scale of this build-out is designed to bypass the energy and hardware bottlenecks currently constraining the global AI supply chain.
This roadmap signals that Meta will maintain elevated Capex to fuel the development of advanced Llama models and agentic services. By securing energy and building proprietary data centers, the company is insulating itself from supply constraints while deploying custom hardware like the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA). For investors, this represents a multi-year bet that infrastructure scale will be the deciding factor in the AI race through 2030 and beyond.
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