Zuck's $600B Hot-Mic Bid: Betting Big on AI and Water Bills

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KEY POINTS

•Mark Zuckerberg announced a $600 billion investment in the US to support AI and infrastructure.
•He initially discussed this pledge during a White House dinner with President Trump in September.
•Meta plans to use the funds to develop water-efficient AI data centers and enhance workforce expansion.

Mark Zuckerberg casually dropped a $600 billion U.S. investment bombshell during a September White House AI dinner with Donald Trump, admitting mid-whisper, 'I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with.' Now Meta has officially RSVP'd to the billion-dollar party, spreading the cash across AI infrastructure, data centers, and hiring enough pipefitters, steelworkers, and fiber techs to keep America hopefully hydrated by 2030 (because their new AI data centers plan to be 'water positive'). Since 2010, Meta claims they’ve made 30,000 skilled trade jobs and dumped $20 billion to subcontractors—because who needs modesty when you’re the tech world’s equivalent of an overenthusiastic toddler throwing bricks at the future?

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t pick a number, so he threw out $600B to Trump at dinner. Now Meta’s all in—building data centers that suck less water by 2030 while burning through cash faster than AI learns to pretend it understands humans.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

Zuck’s $600 billion plan sounds like a billionaire version of 'How many data centers does it take to fix a faucet?' Spoiler: The answer is ‘a lot, and don’t ask about the depreciation.’

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

Declaring a $600B investment before knowing the number? Classic Zuckerberg: making tech IPOs look like game-night guesses and turning water-positive into ‘we hope, maybe’ by 2030.

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