According to a TechCrunch report, Monday (12/1) local time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta's launch of the initiative aims to drastically expand its energy footprint in the coming years.
"Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time. How we engineer, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will be a strategic advantage," Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Threads.
A gigawatt is a unit of electrical power equal to one billion watts. The energy-hungry AI industry is predicted to drive an exponential surge in US electricity consumption in the coming decade (from 5 GW to 50 GW, according to one estimate).
