Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a massive effort to further the companys AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan, he wrote on Threads today.The announcement reads like a response to the big AI data center news touted by competitors earlier this week.as they announced Project Stargate, a $500 billion joint venture that will build sprawling AI data centers in Texas and other parts of the country. City documents seen by Bloomberg suggest the Texas data center will be as big as New Yorks Central Park.Meta started building its $10 billion AI data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana last December, and its construction is expected to continue through 2030. The data center is one of many Meta started working on last year to power its open-source large language model Llama. Aside from Meta, tech giants including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia are spending billions to scale up their data-hungry AI efforts.RelatedZuckerberg said he expects to end the year with over 1.3 million GPUs, while significantly growing the companys AI team. This will be a defining year for AI, Zuckerberg wrote. In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and well build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D [research and development] efforts.