Meta Platforms plans to invest up to $65 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 to expand efforts related to data centers and artificial intelligence. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the social-media company will build a 2-gigawatt-plus data center and will end the year with more than 1.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up its capital expenditures this year as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the cutthroat AI space. In a Facebook post Friday, Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on capex in 2025,

Despite investing almost $14 billion in OpenAI and using the startup’s AI models for its next-generation cloud services, Microsoft was mentioned only as a technology partner in a joint venture called Stargate launched by OpenAI,