Eager to establish dominance in artificial intelligence , Meta has signed up to use cloud-computing services from Google Cloud in a deal worth at least $10 billion over six years, according to a report from Bloomberg .

The deal would expand Meta's capabilities as it continues to push AI tools and services across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. AI requires an enormous amount of computing resources, demanding more data center bandwidth. Those data centers need an increasing amount of electricity and water to run and cool the hardware inside.

Meta is also spending big to build its own AI data centers, including a 4-million-square-foot facility in Louisiana called Hyperion , which it plans to open by 2030.

Meta and Google declined to comment on the spe

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