[camdat]

>The problem with this line of reasoning is that Meta’s capital expenditures are directly focused on both of the two main reasons for alarm: TikTok and ATT. That is because the answer to both challenges is more AI, and building up AI capacity requires a lot of capital investment.

>In the long run, though, this investment should pay off. First, there are the benefits to better targeting and better recommendations I just described, which should restart revenue growth. Second, once these AI data centers are built out the cost to maintain and upgrade them should be significantly less than the initial cost of building them the first time. Third, this massive investment is one no other company can make, except for Google (and, not coincidentally, Google’s capital expenditures are set to rise as well).

[chowchowchow]

And? Neither of those quotes mentions metaverse spending.

[camdat]

RL spending (that 10B you're mentioning) includes this capital expenditure. Obviously the percentage of that 10B going to deployment is unknown, but given that it's the most expensive part (according to the author), I assume it's the majority.