Meta Pledges $600B to Build AI Data Centers in the U.S.

Meta Platforms announced it will invest more than $600 billion in the United States by 2028 to build artificial intelligence data centres, expand infrastructure and support jobs, the company revealed in a blog post and press notices. The investment is part of Meta’s push into advanced AI systems and what CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes as “personal superintelligence” for users. Meta said it plans to build and scale infrastructure for the future of AI while supporting the U.S. economy and maintaining America’s technology leadership.

Meta’s CFO Susan Li confirmed that the figure covers all U.S. investments through 2028, including data centres, employees and business operations, and noted that computing-capacity demands are driving the higher spending. On the company’s recent earnings call, Meta revealed that capital-expenditure growth will be “notably larger in 2026 than 2025,” with most of the expenses going to computing power, company-owned data centres and cloud-services partnerships.

The company highlighted that its U.S. data-centre projects already support tens of thousands of skilled trade jobs and have generated more than $20 billion in business for subcontractors nationwide. Environmental and community considerations are also part of the strategy: Meta says it uses data-centre designs that reduce water use, aim to achieve “water positive” status by 2030 and work with local utilities to build cleaner energy grids.

However, the aggressive rollout comes amid caution from investors. Some analysts warned that Meta’s soaring infrastructure spending echoes past periods of heavy investment, such as in the metaverse, where results fell short. As Meta moves into a period of accelerated infrastructure build-out, the company is placing its bet that front-loading compute and capacity will pay off in the long run, even if it involves absorbing short-term cost increases.