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Meta to Spend Up to $27 Billion on Nebius AI Infrastructure
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4:29Now PlayingEd Ludlow, BTech Co-Anchor, discusses Meta's move to purchase access to Nebius' AI infrastructure as well as Alibaba's plans for a revamp.
Meta Platforms Inc. will pay as much as $27 billion over the next five years for access to artificial intelligence infrastructure from cloud provider Nebius Group NV as it spends aggressively to compete with the industry’s top frontier models.
Nebius, a so-called neocloud that operates data centers and has a strategic partnership with Nvidia Corp., will provide Meta $12 billion of dedicated capacity starting in early 2027, the Dutch company said in a statement Monday. Meta also committed to buying as much as $15 billion in additional capacity that the cloud provider is building for third-party customers.
The outlay represents one of the biggest single contracts that Meta has signed, underscoring the Instagram and Facebook owner’s push for more computing capacity to power the development of AI products. Last year, it signed a separate $3 billion deal with Nebius.
Nebius shares jumped 15% in premarket trading. The stock had closed at $112.95 in New York on Friday and has nearly quadrupled in the past 12 months. Meta gained 2.8% before the market opened after previously closing at $613.71.
Meta and some of its largest tech peers are expected to spend some $650 billion in 2026 to build data centers and purchase other infrastructure in anticipation of an AI services explosion in the coming years. Meta has made AI the company’s top priority, and is investing heavily to compete with rivals like OpenAI and Google. It has also inked multi-billion dollar partnership agreements with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for AI infrastructure since the start of the year. And Meta is developing its own chips in-house.
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