Meta could invest up to $200 billion in a new AI data center campus in the US, it has been reported.
Executives from Facebook’s parent company have been visiting potential sites for the campus, according to a report in The Information.
They have informed data center developers about the project, with Louisiana, Texas, and Wyoming all under consideration as possible locations.
A Meta spokesperson told DCD: "We have been clear about our data center plans and disclosed our planned capital expenditures, anything beyond that is pure speculation."
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that Meta plans to bring around 1GW of compute online this year, and expects to field a fleet of more than 1.3 million GPUs by the end of 2025.
Meta told investors it plans to invest $60-65 billion on capital expenditure, primarily on data centers and servers, as well as grow its AI teams "significantly."
The company already has plans for Louisiana, with a $10 billion data center campus in the works for the state’s Richland Parish which will offer 2GW compute capacity at full build-out.
Set on the 2,250 acres former Franklin Farm megasite between the municipalities of Rayville and Delhi, about 30 miles east of Monroe, the campus will total more than 4 million sq ft (371,610 sqm). Renderings suggest up to nine buildings are planned. Work was due to start on the site in December 2024, with construction to continue through 2030.
In Wyoming, it is already building on a 945-acre site south of the state capital, Cheyenne. A campus covering 800,000 sq ft (74,320 sqm) is planned for the site and is likely to take three years to construct.
