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Meta liquidates the metaverse to buy gigawatts

development2026-01-13

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Meta announced a Meta Compute initiative to scale to tens of gigawatts this decade, with Zuckerberg reportedly cutting a tenth of Reality Labs to fund it.

Reported metric: tens of GW

Reporting date: 2026-01-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to January 13, 2026

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Meta

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Meta contracts 6.6 GW of nuclear

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Meta liquidates the metaverse to buy gigawatts
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-13-meta-compute-tens-of-gigawatts
Claim: Meta announced a Meta Compute initiative to scale to tens of gigawatts this decade, with Zuckerberg reportedly cutting a tenth of Reality Labs to fund it.
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- Welcome to January 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-13-2026
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