Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026

• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure.
• The company plans to bring its first supercluster, Prometheus, online next year.
• Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree in recent weeks, highlighted by a $14 billion investment in Scale AI.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, and that Meta plans to bring its first supercluster online next year.

A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that's designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads.

“Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Monday. “I'm looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier!”

Zuckerberg said Meta's first supercluster is called Prometheus, and that the company is building several other multi-gigawatt clusters. One cluster, called Hyperion, will be able to scale up to five gigawatts over several years, he said.

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Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree in recent weeks, highlighted by a $14 billion investment in Scale AI. He announced a new organization in June called Meta Superintelligence Labs that's made up of top AI researchers and engineers.

Zuckerberg had grown frustrated with Meta's progress in AI, especially after the release of its Llama 4 AI models in April received a lukewarm response from developers. He is revamping Meta's approach to better compete with rivals like OpenAI and Google.

“For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry,” Zuckerberg wrote Monday.