Meta bet $100B on data centers before Muse Wonder proved out
The gigawatt-scale Prometheus cluster in Ohio and the 5GW Hyperion build in Louisiana were approved without knowing Wonder would land. CFO Susan Li called a failure 'really, really bad in financial terms.'
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The gigawatt-scale Prometheus cluster in Ohio trained Muse Wonder; Hyperion in Louisiana will scale to five gigawatts.
Infrastructure costs run $50–60 billion per cluster; a gigawatt-year costs roughly $15 billion to operate.
Fewer than 200 researchers staff Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, concentrated on one training ladder.
Internal evaluations now favor internal agent-reliability suites over public benchmarks.
Zuckerberg argues the compute holds value regardless: other labs would pay a premium for access.
Subscriptions, commerce take-rates, and API revenue are expected to fund continued CapEx.