The Meta AI logo appears on a smartphone display and as a background on a laptop screen in this depicting photo in Athens, Greece, July 24, 2025. META states that it can spend up to $ 72 billion on capital costs this year, with emphasis on AI and data. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/Nurphoto through Getty Images)
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How many reading of this piece of opinion were longing for AI server data centers, as it arrived in 2020 or was hoping to work in one? Note the Tock, note the Tock.
To say that no one thought of what today multiplies it comes to life by the happy, economy that reinforces the truth that Microsoft was the only company to claim one. Microsoft’s highly expensive AI server, which is often described as a data center, is in Iowa. Which in many ways is the point. Not only did AI server operate a future idea, it is not as if Microsoft had found what would prove to be transformed into Seattle, Austin or Boston.
The big news is that there was the creation of Microsoft. This meant that Openai had a server in which it could develop the life -changing chatgpt. The latter explains the property of Microsoft 49% of Openai. Just a lot for all involved.
Meta did not have an AI server like that and as with Open AI, Meta is used Microsoft’s. Talking about progress that is inherent in the opening of the new Meta Data Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Some will focus on Meta’s $ 1 billion investment in Missouri, others in the 100+ business jobs that will support the center and others will be reasonably enthusiastic from the 1,500+ employees working in the creation of the highly sophisticated center. The excitement is reasonable, but at the same time there is much more.
As Professor Cal-Berkeley Enrico Moretti has long lasts, the genius of high-tech construction and job creation cannot be limited to jobs. Moretti has long noticed that there is a “job multiplier” that is dynamically revealed when companies such as Meta, Microsoft and Openai are expanding their fingerprints. Investment professionals, investment bankers, bankers, lawyers, chefs, sommeliers, baristas, personal trainers and everyone else is employed by the extension of the already big companies.
From there, consider the positive energy consequences of the expansion of the data center that can hardly be confined to the city of Kansas. With all their accounts these centers consume plenty of quantities of power, and this is good on the contrary conventional wisdom.
As he has already seen through Microsoft’s collaboration with Constellation Energy in the revival of the three-mile nuclear power plant, the pure energy previously non-economic has become economical by the cooperation due to the enormous energy needs of the data centers.
The Meta Data Center will happily expand the need for energy and with it, much greater knowledge of how to satisfy and overcome the required power needs. In other words, data centers ready to expand knowledge and enhance human capacity to production will not be the only dividends they would have from growth, so our knowledge of how to authorize a much more plenty of future.
Energy Futurist Mark Mills has made the point that progress does not result in less energy consumption and what he said is true as you read this. It is not bad, it is probably a knowledge that expands. A picture of much of human existence there was no understanding of how to take advantage of the abundant resources of the earth (think of the wind, water and oil only) on the way to mechanize many more.
Data centers do not just promise progress of progress. The relentless energy consumption will be its own source of large jumps through more investments in creating even better ways of accessing not only known energy sources, but much more important, of the unknown ones hiding with a simple look. Production is consumption and neither is derogatory. Both are wealth precisely because both are knowledge.
It shows once again that the opening of the newer data center by Meta cannot simply be limited to opening. It is a signal for something much larger, for a future that has been discovered on the way to discover wealth for much more.


