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On 28 October 2021, at its Connect conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook's parent company would become Meta, a rebrand around building the metaverse that left the Facebook app's name unchanged.

On 29 May 2025 Anduril and Meta announced a partnership to design and field augmented and virtual reality products for US and allied militaries, starting with the EagleEye helmet.

On 3 June 2025 Constellation and Meta signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for the 1,121 MW output of the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Illinois, starting in June 2027 and backing a 30 MW uprate.

On 18 November 2025 US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the FTC had failed to prove Meta holds a monopoly in social networking, so Meta keeps Instagram and WhatsApp; the FTC has since said it will appeal.

On 9 January 2026 Meta announced agreements with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo that extend three operating nuclear plants and fund new reactors, unlocking up to 6.6 GW of clean power by 2035 for its AI data centers.

On 24 February 2026 AMD and Meta announced an expanded partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, starting with a custom MI450-based Instinct GPU and 6th Gen EPYC "Venice" CPUs in the second half of 2026. AMD issued Meta a performance-based warrant for up to 160 million AMD shares.

On 24 March 2026 Arm announced the Arm AGI CPU, an Arm-designed data-centre processor for agentic AI developed with Meta, marking its first production silicon product after more than 35 years of licensing designs.

A multi-year deal through 2029 for Broadcom to co-develop and supply Meta's MTIA accelerators and Ethernet networking, starting with more than 1 GW and the industry's first 2nm AI compute accelerator; Hock Tan leaves Meta's board to advise it.

On 23 April 2026 an internal memo from Meta's chief people officer, confirmed to NPR, said the company would cut about 10% of its workforce (some 8,000 people) on 20 May and not fill 6,000 open roles.

Qualcomm and Meta signed a multi-generation agreement making Qualcomm a data-centre CPU supplier to Meta, whose next-generation server fleet is to run Qualcomm's Dragonfly C1000, in production from the second half of 2028.

The New York Times reported on 17 July 2026, and CNBC confirmed, that Anthropic is in very early talks to lease about $10 billion of computing power from Meta, which would make Meta a cloud provider to a rival.

On 29 July 2026 Meta reported second-quarter revenue of US$60.80 billion, up 28%, while net income fell 14% to US$15.85 billion after US$2.40 billion of legal charges and US$1.18 billion of severance for the May layoffs.

ENGIE is building the 200 MW Anson 2 solar plant in Jones County, northwest of Abilene, Texas, with Meta buying its energy and attributes; originally due late 2025, now listed for 2026, cost not published.

Meta reported US$64.601 billion revenue and US$9.860 billion net income for Q3 2026. A US$9.89 billion litigation charge reduced operating profit; full-year capex guidance narrowed to US$135–145 billion.

Longroad Energy is building the 300 MWac (400 MWdc) 1000 Mile solar farm in Yoakum County, Texas, with all output contracted to Meta; construction began at financial close on 15 September 2025 and no total project cost has been published.

MN8 Energy is constructing the 80 MW utility-scale Walker Solar Project across rural agricultural parcels in Walker Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania. Contracted under a 100% long-term corporate power purchase agreement with Meta to power regional cloud and AI data center operations with carbon-free electricity, the PJM-interconnected facility delivers clean energy and millions of dollars in sustained tax revenues to central Pennsylvania.

ENGIE North America is developing the 600 MW Swenson Ranch Solar project in Stonewall County, Texas, a 900 million USD investment whose full output Meta will buy under a power purchase agreement; operation is planned for 2027.

Meta’s current fact sheet gives an $800 million-plus Aiken investment and closed-loop liquid cooling. South Carolina’s announcement describes a 715,000-square-foot Sage Mill campus expected operational in spring 2027. The former $1.2B / 91 MW scope is removed.

Silicon Ranch will build, own and operate a 100 MW solar farm in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Central Electric Power Cooperative will buy the output, and the project supports Meta's first South Carolina data center. It is expected to be operational in spring 2027.

Invenergy's Chalk Bluff Solar in St. Francis County, Arkansas is listed at 350 MW in Meta's 2024 contracts and 450 MW in a county presentation, with 100 MW sold to Verizon, and is targeted for June 2027; no cost has been published.

Meta’s current Montgomery fact sheet publishes a $1.5 billion-plus investment. It supersedes the initial $800M-plus announcement. The source does not establish the old 106 MW load, 380-acre site or June 2027 commissioning date.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

The Village of Los Lunas FY2026 budget identifies Meta’s third data-center expansion as an $800 million direct investment in 2025. Meta’s current U.S. fleet page gives $2.5 billion-plus for the entire campus, a different scope from this expansion.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

Enbridge announced on 19 May 2026 that it will invest about US$1.2 billion in Phase 1 of the Cowboy Project near Cheyenne, Wyoming: 365 MW of solar and a 200 MW / 1,600 MWh Tesla battery, with power delivered to Meta data centers through Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power by the end of 2027.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

AEP Ohio built the Green Chapel 138 kV station in Licking County, Ohio, for a chip-fab customer requiring 440 MW at first and up to 1,560 MW at peak; Intel's $28 billion Ohio One fab has slipped to 2030-2031 for the first module, so the substation sits unused and AEP Ohio and Meta have asked to use it temporarily.