Meta Signs $27 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With Nebius

AI infrastructure company Nebius signed a deal to provide up to $27 billion in AI computing capacity to Meta over the next five years, including a guaranteed $12 billion purchase by 2027. Reuters reports: Under the agreement, Meta will also buy an additional $15 billion worth of capacity planned by Nebius over the coming five years if it is not sold to other customers, giving the contract a total value of up to $27 billion, Nebius said. The deal is the latest example of U.S. tech giants' efforts to supplement their own AI data-centre build-outs by locking in scarce GPU and power capacity from "neocloud" providers like Nebius. Nebius CEO Arkady Volozh said the latest Meta deal would help "accelerate the build-out and growth of our core AI cloud business." Further reading: Data Centers Overtake Offices In US Construction-Spending Shift

Great news, but...

[TwistedGreen]

What does Meta need all this AI compute capacity for? Running Moltbook at scale?

Re:Great news, but...

[nightflameauto]

What does Meta need all this AI compute capacity for? Running Moltbook at scale?

You need a *LOT* of datacenters to refactor all data available on the internetwebz every couple months when they release a new model.

where's all this money coming from?

[haruchai]

and into what pit is it disappearing?
given the amount of scaling required to improve there's no way to break even in Zuck's lifetime unless he really is a robot

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[Whateverthisis]

So this question is exactly the question people should be asking; its perhaps the most important question and few people are asking it.

You're exactly right to be concerned, if this was OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI. In essence these companies are announcing multi-billion dollar deals to build data centers that can't be built, to buy GPUs in a volume that can barely be made, requiring infrastructure that hasn't been built, to build compute power that may or may not be needed, for a market that hasn't yet b

Fact check for Meta

[gtall]

You screwed up and actually you signed a $27 Billion deal with Nebulous. It pays to read the fine print and not have a dolt for a CEO.

Please stop!

[SumDog]

Can people please stop using the fucking chatbots for EVERYTHING! I swear some of this stuff has to take longer with the LLM than just looking up the solution that was posted 6 years ago Stackoverflow.

Whenever I see a funny generated video, I might be like "Man that's pretty funny ..... and ALSO THE REASON I CAN'T AFFORD RAM!"

Make RAM affordable again!