Meta Expands AI Compute Capacity

The story now adds more concrete scale and execution detail around Meta’s AI buildout, especially a newly specified 2026 deployment target and more explicit chip-production timing. It also sharpens the framing that excess capacity leasing remains only exploratory, with Anthropic talks still preliminary.

The story has expanded from Meta’s Crusoe capacity deal into a broader AI infrastructure buildout, centered on a much larger Louisiana Hyperion project and Meta’s custom-chip roadmap. It also introduces a potential commercialization angle, with Meta considering leasing excess compute and even a possible Anthropic deal.

• Hyperion in Louisiana may expand from 2.2 to 5 gigawatts.
• Meta plans Iris chip production around September 2026.
• Meta is considering leasing unused compute capacity.
• Meta is discussing a potential up-to-$10 billion deal with Anthropic.
• Meta expects 7 gigawatts deployed in 2026 and 14 gigawatts in 2027.

The main update is a tighter, more specific framing of Meta’s Crusoe deal, with the current version naming the Texas and Missouri sites and stressing uncertainty around when the capacity will actually come online. It also more explicitly ties the story to Crusoe’s uneven execution, highlighted by the paused Wyoming campus.

Meta has reportedly secured new agreements with Crusoe for AI computing capacity at data centers in Texas and Missouri, totaling about 1.6 gigawatts. The deal fits a broader pattern of large technology firms expanding AI infrastructure despite tight supply and high capital spending. A related Crusoe campus pause in Wyoming has also drawn attention to how uneven demand and customer-specific needs are shaping the AI data center market.