Business | Splashing the cache

The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping

Demand for processing power will continue to outpace supply

A data centre inside the Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California
Photograph: Jason Henry

If investment in data centres is about to slow, nobody told Mark Zuckerberg. On January 29th, during an earnings call, Meta’s boss boasted that the social-media giant had plans to build an artificial-intelligence (AI) data centre “so big that it’ll cover a significant part of Manhattan if it were placed there”.

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