Meta, led by founder Mark Zuckerberg, plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in building large AI data centres across the US, with the first, named Prometheus, set to operate by 2026.

• Investment of hundreds of billions to create AI-driven facilities, including a multi-gigawatt data centre covering an area almost the size of Manhattan.
• Mark Zuckerberg announced the plans via his social platform, Threads.
• The Hyperion cluster, expected to reach five gigawatts in capacity by 2030, will be located in Louisiana.