Meta to spend hundreds of billions on AI data centres, says Mark Zuckerberg

Meta's founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US.The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, Zuckerberg said.He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles).Meta has invested heavily in efforts to develop what it…