Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute
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Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed Meta is exploring an AI cloud business, saying selling compute “makes sense”, putting his name to the earlier-reported “Meta Compute” plan. It would pit Meta against AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and threaten neoclouds like CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN, which fell on the news, even as Meta remains one of their biggest customers. The move aims to monetise Meta’s $100bn-plus AI capex, though cloud is a lower-margin service business Meta has never run.
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg.
The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. Meta had been said to be weighing a venture, dubbed Meta Compute, to rent out its spare AI capacity.
The logic is straightforward. Meta is spending well over $100bn on...
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