- Meta should almost double its IA infrastructure expenses
- Meta seems to follow the rhythm of the main competitors of the AI
- AI infrastructure has a huge environmental cost
While governments and private companies around the world announce enormous IA infrastructure plans, Meta has become the last to announce a great frenzy of expenses.
In its latest quarterly financial results, the company announced an expansion of spending at around 66 to 72 billion dollars – more than to double its expenses on data centers and servers.
“We expect the development of main AI infrastructures to be an essential advantage in the development of the best AI models and the best products of products, we therefore expect to considerably increase our investments in 2026 to support this work,” said Susan Li, Meta CFO, when calling the company’s profits.
Costly infrastructure
This decision comes shortly after Meta’s shares jumped more than 10%, thanks in large part to business advertising, where AI -focused advertising tools allow users to generate video ads from images, helping to encourage better conversion rates.
Meta says he expects a similar leap in expenses in 2026, while the company seems “aggressive [pursue] possibilities of providing additional ability to meet the needs of [its] Artificial intelligence and commercial operations efforts. »»
Meta is not the only one, because Microsoft has also announced its intention to spend billions for AI, announcing more than $ 30 billion in capital investment when it widens the AIA capacity in order to follow Amazon – which should spend up to $ 111 billion in 2025 itself with the majority for technology and infrastructure.
This infrastructure, mainly referring to data centers and large servers, is expensive for more than one. It would be dishonest to talk about the expenditure of the data center without mentioning the enormous environmental costs associated with the infrastructure.
Data centers consume massive quantities of energy and water – exhausting local water sources and putting enormous pressure on already laborious energy networks.
Local communities are hardly affected by the constructions of nearby data centers – with Texas data centers using 463 million water gallons, as residents are invited to take shorter showers to compensate for use.
In Georgia, residents living near the Meta data center can no longer drink their water, with dry taps thanks to additional sediments in local wells. The cost of municipal water has skyrocketed and the County Water Commission can face a shortage.
Via: Techcrunch
