Meta’s Latest AI Gamble: Building Two Massive Data Centres to Achieve Superintelligence

Meta is going to “invest hundreds of billions of dollars” to deliver superintelligence, an artificial intelligence system that outperforms humans. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is building two massive data centres that will supply the necessary computational power for this goal.

These data centres, named Prometheus and Hyperion, will produce multiple gigawatts of energy for training and running the superintelligent system. Prometheus will be based in New Albany, Ohio, and is expected to come online in 2026. Hyperion will be built in Louisiana and is anticipated to be online by 2030, according to the BBC.

“We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well,” Zuckerberg wrote in a series of posts on Threads. “Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.” For reference, Manhattan has an area of 59 km2.

He went on to say that Hyperion “will be able ...