Meta Platforms has announced plans to invest $600 billion in the United States to accelerate its artificial intelligence initiatives.
The company intends to deploy this capital over the next three years toward constructing new AI data centers, developing supporting infrastructure such as power transmission lines, and expanding its workforce.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg first introduced the $600 billion investment proposal during a September dinner with former U.S. President Donald Trump. Meta delayed the official announcement until now because two major AI-related investments were only finalized within the past three weeks. These deals will enable the parent company of Facebook to increase its data center capacity by approximately 3 gigawatts (GW).
The larger of the two investments is a $27 billion joint venture with Blue Owl, an investment firm. Under the agreement, Blue Owl will help finance Meta’s flagship Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana. This arrangement will provide Meta with $7 billion in funding.
The Hyperion campus is expected to comprise nine buildings spanning roughly 4 million square feet. According to Meta, these facilities will house computing equipment with a total capacity of 2 GW. Full operational status for Hyperion is targeted for 2030.
Meta has partnered with publicly traded utility Entergy Corp. to develop new power generation infrastructure for the campus. Entergy will construct a $3.2 billion natural gas-fired power plant in Louisiana, along with associated transmission infrastructure. The facility is projected to generate 1.5 GW—about 75% of Hyperion’s anticipated energy needs.
Concurrently with the Blue Owl joint venture, Meta revealed plans to build another AI data center campus in El Paso. This site is expected to deliver up to 1 GW of computing capacity. Like Hyperion, it will be supported by newly built power transmission infrastructure dedicated to Meta’s AI workloads.
Meta stated today that it is generating more than $20 billion in business opportunities for subcontractors involved in its data center projects. These include skilled tradespeople such as steelworkers, plumbers, electricians, and fiber optic technicians. The company estimates it has supported over 30,000 skilled jobs since 2010.
Meta also reaffirmed its commitment to achieving water positivity by 2030—meaning it will restore more freshwater to the environment than its data centers consume.
The El Paso data center campus will play a key role in this initiative. Last month, Meta announced collaborations with local organizations on a series of watershed restoration programs. The company projects it will return twice the volume of freshwater consumed at the El Paso site back into the ecosystem.
Meta may equip its upcoming data centers with custom silicon chips. In September, the company acquired Rivos Inc., a startup developing an AI inference processor that integrates graphics processing units with multiple RISC-V central processing cores.
