Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know that he too has a gigantic AI data center

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to realize the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a data center in Louisiana that Zuckerberg said “is so large it would encompass much of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads Today.

The announcement sounds like a response to reports of gigantic AI data centers touted by competitors earlier this week. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump joined OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Softbank’s Masayoshi Son and Oracle’s Larry Ellison in announcing Project Stargate, a $500 billion joint venture that will build sprawling AI data centers in Texas and other parts of the country. City documents seen through Bloomberg suggest that the Texas data center will be as gigantic as Central Park in Recent York.

Zuckerberg said he expects to end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs, while also “significantly” expanding the company’s AI team. “This will be a defining year for artificial intelligence,” Zuckerberg wrote. “I expect that by 2025, Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving over a billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state-of-the-art model, and we will have built an AI engineer that will start contributing more and more code to our research and development [research and development] efforts.”