Not to be outdone by its close rival OpenAI, Meta has announced its plans to spend $60 to $65 billion on AI infrastructure this year, and is building a data center almost as big as Manhattan.In a Facebook post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his companys intent to build a 2GW data center, bring roughly 1GW of compute online in 2025, and end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. Included in his post was a blueprint of the planned Richland Parish Center Data Center superimposed on a map of Manhattan (the data center will actually be in northeast Louisiana).