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Meta stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday on a that the company is building a new business to sell excess AI computing capacity to outside customers—a move that would put it in competition with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Key facts
- Going from 3 or 4 billion social media app users to 10 customers buying data center capacity from them—that doesn’t seem like a good fit,” Douglas said
- Douglas said he was skeptical of the specific plan Bloomberg described—selling excess AI compute the way AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- And if you’re going to rent it like AWS—well, now that’s a competitive market: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
- It doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you want to put your name in the back of the AI space—get attention,” he said
Summary
Meta stock jumped more than 7% Tuesday on a that the company is building a new business to sell excess AI computing capacity to outside customers effectively data “embassies”—so multinational clients with strict data-residency rules can use them without technically moving data outside their home country. Douglas said he was skeptical of the specific plan Bloomberg described—selling excess AI compute the way AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud do. Douglas, who spent years as a coding engineer before founding a series of startups, said the plan echoes what SpaceX and xAI have done with their own data centers—building capacity and renting it out to several massive buyers, like Anthropic. “There’s not many companies that can take raw data center space and put it to use,” Douglas said. He was also skeptical that the pivot fits Meta’s core business at all.