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Meta Ramps Up Multi-Gigawatt AI Data Centers as Pentagon Awards Up to $800 Million in AI Contracts

The Defense Department’s contracts, alongside Meta’s cluster expansion, sharpen the US bid for AI supremacy by linking cutting-edge compute infrastructure with military capabilities.

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Overview

  • Meta has broken ground on its first Prometheus cluster, a 1 GW AI training facility due in 2026, while planning a 5 GW Hyperion supercluster and further Titan sites.
  • The company has earmarked up to $72 billion for AI and data centers in 2025, drawing on advertising revenue and multihundred-million-dollar talent packages to secure top researchers.
  • Meta’s $14.3 billion purchase of a 49 percent stake in Scale AI and the hire of co-founder Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer aim to bolster its data and model development capabilities.
  • The Defense Department awarded four leading AI developers—Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI—contracts of up to $200 million each to deploy agent-based AI workflows in military operations.
  • Proceeding despite xAI’s Grok chatbot controversy, these awards underscore the Pentagon’s drive to integrate advanced AI tools for strategic advantage.