Zuckerberg's enormous drive for AI infrastructure

With aspirations to add tens of gigawatts of capacity this decade and hundreds of gigawatts over time, Meta recently unveiled Meta Compute, a new "top-level initiative" to construct AI infrastructure at an unprecedented scale.

The specifics:

Daniel Gross, who joined from AI safety company SSI last year, and infrastructure head Santosh Janardhan will co-lead the endeavor.

Meta has signed 20-year nuclear power contracts for its data centers and has promised to spending $600 billion on infrastructure in the United States by 2028.

Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump national security official and recently named president, will manage government agreements to fund and expand capacity.

The statement coincides with reports of significant layoffs to Meta's metaverse/VR and Reality Labs departments, with a cut of about 10% anticipated this week.

After spending a significant amount of money in the summer to acquire elite AI expertise, Zuck and company are now stepping up their efforts in the computing space. The goal of Meta's endeavor is to make sure that scale won't be a barrier to advancing to the frontier as the AI race becomes more and more an infrastructure one.

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