Meta inks £10 billion cloud deal with Google

Meta has signed a massive £10 billion cloud computing agreement with Google, marking a major step in its AI expansion strategy. Under the deal, Meta will pay $10 billion over six years to use Google Cloud infrastructure, a move aligned with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s push to hyperscale the company’s AI capabilities.

This partnership represents the first significant cloud contract between the two technology giants. While Meta has relied heavily on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the past, this new agreement with Google positions the search giant as a critical partner in Meta’s AI journey. The deal now ranks as the third-largest among big tech cloud providers, signaling Google Cloud’s growing importance in the AI infrastructure race.

Google has confirmed the deal, although Meta has yet to issue a public comment. The collaboration builds on previous ties between the firms, including Google Cloud’s support for Meta’s LLaMA AI model, which launched in 2023. With this deal, Google gains a strategic foothold in Meta’s scaling plans, while Meta secures the cloud resources necessary to train and deploy advanced AI systems at global scale.

The move comes as competition in AI intensifies, with companies racing to build more powerful models and support the infrastructure required to deploy them. By locking in this deal, Meta ensures it has access to the compute capacity and scalability required to fuel its next generation of AI tools.

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