Zuckerberg confirms multiple GW AI clusters: Prometheus in 2026, 5000MW+ Hyperion in the future

Meta is pushing into the AI supercomputer space in a big way, with Mark Zuckerberg saying that the social media giant plans to add over 5GW of AI compute power in the years ahead.

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Zuckerberg explained on his Threads post: "For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. We're also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this".

The Meta CEO continued: "We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan. Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher. I'm looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier!".

Prometheus will come online in 2026 acting as Meta's first-ever 1GW lab, with Hyperion launching in the years after, scaling AI compute power to 5GW, and these are Meta's mainstream AI projects. Meta will add multiple new AI clusters over the years, showing that the company is pushing heavily into AI, and plans to overtake the industry.

The El Capitan supercomputer is one of the world's fastest supercomputers, with power consumption sitting at around 30MW, so Meta is building AI clusters with an insane 160x the power requirements of some of the world's fastest supercomputers.