Forget mega yachts, AI data centers are quickly becoming the next battleground for billionaires as Zuckerberg pledges $65 billion CAPEX spend in 2025
Following $500 billion Project Stargate launch, Meta is also dolling out the dollars Meta's $65 billion is lower than Microsoft's $80 billion commitment AWS is set to spend more than $75 billion while Google has yet to say how much it will spend If you have a few hundred billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket,

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Mark Zuckerberg: DeepSeek shows why U.S. must be AI’s ‘global open source standard’; no reason to rethink spending
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to spend over $60 billion as Silicon Valley panics over Chinese AI competition
Forget DeepSeek. Zuckerberg says Meta will spend hundreds of billions on AI.
Meta’s CEO says its consumer AI offering “is going to be one of the most transformative products that we’ve made.”
Meta Will Spend Record $60 Billion On AI This Year, Zuckerberg Says—After Trump Announces Stargate Deal With OpenAI
The $60 to $65 billion in projected capital expenditures this year is more than double the $27 billion Meta spent in 2023.
Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Replace Some Coders With AI, Which Might Prove Tricky
Midlevel staff are often the first targets of corporate downsizing efforts, but Meta’s plan to replace an entire tier of people with AI is a new wrinkle on an old story.
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Zuckerberg Convening Huge "War Rooms" to Figure Out How a Chinese Startup Is Annihilating Meta's AI
Mark Zuckerberg' Meta assembled several"war rooms" of engineers, as The Information reports, in an attempt to get ahead of DeepSeek.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman downplays impact of DeepSeek

Sam Altman says OpenAI will speed up new releases in response to 'invigorating' competition from DeepSeek
OpenAI’s Sam Altman downplays impact of DeepSeek: ‘Wildly overstated’
OpenAI’s Altman Urges US to Support AI Investment After DeepSeek
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to continue investing heavily in physical infrastructure to support future artificial intelligence development, days after the frenzy around Chinese upstart DeepSeek cast new doubt on AI spending.
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he has a big AI data center, too
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads today.
How DeepSeek flipped the tech world on its head overnight
DeepSeek, the new chatbot that seemingly dethroned ChatGPT, is all over the news. Here's everything that happened in the last 24 hours.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to up its capital expenditures in 2025 as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the AI space.
Meta to spend up to $65B on massive AI data center: ‘Defining year for artificial intelligence’
Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant — available across its services, including Facebook and Instagram — to serve more than 1 billion people in 2025.
Facebook owner investing up to $65 billion toward AI in 2025
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media company plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year alone to build on its artificial intelligence efforts.
Tech stocks mixed as Meta, Microsoft affirm big AI spending plans after DeepSeek turmoil
Key tech stocks were a mixed bag in early trading Thursday after executives at Meta and Microsoft said they plan to keep pouring billions of dollars into AI – despite lingering anxiety over the