Meta cloud computing business ‘definitely on the table’, says Mark Zuckerberg – excess data center capacity could be used to enter the market

• A meta-owned cloud company would “definitely be on the table”
• Continued expansion of the data center will fuel the company’s ongoing AI efforts
• All compute is allocated, but any future surplus can be sold on to customers

At its annual shareholder meeting, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that a cloud business “could definitely be on the table” as the company continues to expand its data center footprint to support AI programs.

If Meta were to go down the cloud computing route, it would have to go up against very established hyperscalers. Amazon’s business already takes up a third of the market, and Microsoft and Google jointly own another third.