Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Meta seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis. On Monday, the social networking singularity said it would spend $50 billion to expand its Hyperion datacenter project in Richland Parish, Louisiana, from 2.2 to 5 gigawatts. The news comes less than a week after a report broke claiming that Meta was actively exploring options to offload its excess compute capacity to other AI labs. So, which is it, Zuck? Did you invest too much or too little in AI? The easy answer is that Meta overcommitted.