superclusters

Meta’s AI power play: the first mega-cluster, Prometheus, comes online in 2026, with a second (Hyperion) scaling to 5 gigawatts later, and Zuckerberg boasts that one cluster covers a significant part of Manhattan’s footprint. Zuckerberg personally leads a “talent raid” to hire top engineers after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, and in 2025 Meta raises capital expenditures to $64–72 billion. Meta’s crackdown on unoriginal content includes removing about 10 million imposter profiles and penalizing over 500,000 accounts, while testing a feature to link duplicates to the original creator. Meta faces an $8 billion shareholder lawsuit in Delaware Chancery