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Meta’s capex inflation: Mark Zuckerberg’s AI appetite and the Trump tariffs are boosting infrastructure spending to as much as $72 billion

Meta’s capex inflation: Mark Zuckerberg’s AI appetite and the Trump tariffs are boosting infrastructure spending to as much as $72 billion

The social media company cited its aggressive AI goals and rising hardware costs for its decision to raise capex spending by billions of dollars from the range it had set just three months ago.

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April 30, 2025

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