{"id":371454,"date":"2026-07-02T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371454"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:56:03","slug":"meta-reportedly-readies-meta-compute-a-cloud-rival-to-aws-and-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/meta-reportedly-readies-meta-compute-a-cloud-rival-to-aws-and-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta reportedly readies Meta Compute: a cloud rival to AWS and Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta Platforms appears to be lining up a cloud service called Meta Compute, built on the same infrastructure it’s been scaling at speed for advanced model development. According to reports, the service could let customers rent Meta’s spare capacity<\/a><\/strong>, including high-end GPUs for training and inference. It may also give companies access to Meta-hosted models, or let them run their own models on Meta hardware. If that happens, Meta won’t just be building for itself. It’ll be going head-to-head with Amazon Web Services<\/a>, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.<\/p>\n\n

The timing makes sense given how aggressively Meta is building. After roughly $72 billion<\/strong> in 2025 capex, the company said it expects to spend about $125 billion to $145 billion in 2026. It already runs around 30 data centers and is aiming for tens of gigawatts of compute. Renting out idle systems would help soften some of that cost while demand is still tight. Analysts pointed to a recent example: GitHub<\/a> reportedly turned to Amazon Web Services when Microsoft Azure<\/a> couldn’t meet short-term needs.<\/p>\n\n

If you watch Meta Platforms for more than the advertising business, this one deserves attention. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the idea is “definitely on the table,” and other companies have reportedly asked to buy spare capacity<\/strong>. Meta shares rose about 9% to 10%, while CoreWeave and Nebius reportedly dropped. Morgan Stanley also said leasing 250 megawatts could add roughly $2.97 to 2028 EPS, though cloud is a harder business than ads in a few very specific ways. Margins are different, support is heavier, reliability matters more, and customers usually want long contracts.<\/p>\n\n

For now, though, there’s nothing to download<\/strong>. Meta Platforms hasn’t announced a product, pricing, SLAs, or a launch date.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta Platforms appears to be lining up a cloud service called Meta Compute, built on the same infrastructure it’s been scaling at speed for advanced model development. According to reports, the service could let customers rent Meta’s spare capacity, including high-end GPUs for training and inference. It may also give companies access to Meta-hosted models, … Continue reading “Meta reportedly readies Meta Compute: a cloud rival to AWS and Azure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":371453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-371454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371455,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371454\/revisions\/371455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371454"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371454"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371454"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}