Mark Zuckerberg says a Meta cloud computing business 'definitely on the table'
Mark Zuckerberg stated that Meta is considering launching a cloud computing business to compete with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, describing the move as "definitely on the table" as the company looks to expand beyond social media and advertising.
Background
- **Mark Zuckerberg** is the CEO of **Meta** (formerly Facebook), the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Quest VR/AR platform.<br>- **Cloud computing businesses** (like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) sell on-demand computing power, storage, and AI infrastructure to other companies. This is a massive, high-margin market dominated by the "Big Three."<br>- Meta has spent tens of billions of dollars building its own data-center and AI infrastructure to run its services and train its large language model, Llama. The argument for selling cloud services is that this infrastructure could also serve external customers, turning a cost center into a revenue stream.<br>- Zuckerberg floating this idea signals a potential major strategic shift: Meta would directly compete with its current cloud providers (primarily Amazon and Microsoft) while also challenging them on AI infrastructure. It mirrors a playbook used by Google and Microsoft themselves — originally building infrastructure for internal use, then offering it commercially.