Meta reportedly wants to start a cloud computing business to compete with
AWS, Azure and others

Date:
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:25:00 +0000

Description:
Facebook's parent company could be launching a new Meta Compute business to sell excess capacity to other hyperscalers and startups.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Meta Compute could see the company sell off its excess compute The company expects to spend $125-145 billion on AI and data centers this year SpaceX recently struck up two very lucrative deals to sell compute to Anthropic, Google Cloud Meta is reportedly looking at selling the compute capacity it has created during its AI-induced data center expansions, and it could launch a business to rival AWS,
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

A report from Bloomberg claims the new businesses, reportedly internally
named Meta Compute, would see the company rent out excess compute capacity. Though Meta hasn't officially confirmed such plans, a cloud computing
business could allow customers to rent GPUs for AI training and inference, access Meta's models or host their own models on Meta's infrastructure.
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and data centers in 2026, and a cloud business could help offset some of the AI infrastructure costs it's faced up to this point. It would also provide extra revenue when the company's GPUs are sitting idle between workloads.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself even refused to write off the possibility. "It's definitely on the table," he told investors on an earnings call. You may like Meta cloud computing business definitely on the table, Mark Zuckerberg says excess data center capacity could be used to enter the market Meta chooses
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If Zuckerberg okays the business, it wouldn't be the first of its kind.
SpaceX also recently struck up deals with Anthropic and Google Cloud to sell its excess capacity. It would likely see instant success as well, because
even industry giants like Microsoft are struggling to meet their own demands.

GitHub recently had to turn to AWS for extra capacity, with Azure failing to meet demands in the short term. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news
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9-10% following reports indicating that shareholders are feeling more confident in the company's massive AI-related spending habits. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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