Meta Platforms (META) Today — Nov. 12, 2025: $1B Wisconsin AI Data Center Breaks Ground as Australia Floats New Media Fines; Stock Slips
Dateline: November 12, 2025 Meta Platforms, Inc. opened Wednesday with a major infrastructure move and fresh regulatory headlines. The Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads owner formally broke ground on a new, AI‑optimized data center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, while Australia advanced plans that could levy multimillion‑dollar penalties on platforms that refuse to pay local publishers. META shares traded lower alongside other mega‑cap tech stocks. About Facebook+2The Guardian+2 AI infrastructure push: Meta breaks ground on its 30th data center Meta confirmed it is building a more‑than‑$1 billion data center campus in Beaver Dam—its 30th globally—designed specifically to power “ambitious AI workloads.”