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Zuck’s A.I. Landlord Era

Meta’s new plan to start selling compute raises a bunch of uncomfortable questions, and not just for the neoclouds it might put out of business: After years of Meta needing more compute than it could produce, what does its sudden surplus say about demand for A.I. overall?

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Meta C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg Photo: Chris Graythen / Getty Images
Ian Krietzberg
July 9, 2026

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Meta, as you may have heard, is developing a plan to get into the cloud infrastructure business. This latest pivot, which was reported by Bloomberg earlier this month, has been slightly misunderstood as an echo of the company’s previous, quixotic attempt to redefine itself around the nebulous “metaverse.” Instead, this latest reorientation is a little more complex and could take shape in a few different ways.