Meta announced a top-level Meta Compute initiative and a plan to build tens of gigawatts of data-center capacity this decade, signaling a major infrastructure play for large-scale AI work. CEO Mark Zuckerberg named senior executives to coordinate chips, software and global site strategy while seeking government and commercial partnerships to secure energy and supply chains. The move concentrates scarce compute and energy resources in corporate hands and creates new opportunities — and competition — for university research partnerships, cloud credits, and campus data-center planning.