finance Mar 16, 2026

Meta signs deal worth up to $27 billion with Nebius for AI infrastructure

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Key Points
  • Meta has inked a deal to spend up to $27 billion on AI infrastructure provided by Dutch company Nebius.
  • The deal includes $12 billion of dedicated capacity and up to $15 billion of additional available compute capacity over a five year period.
  • Meta said its planning capital expenditure of up to $135 billion related to AI this year.
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Meta has signed a new long-term agreement to spend up to $27 billion on Dutch cloud provider Nebius' AI infrastructure, the company announced on Monday.

Over the next five years, Nebius will provide $12 billion of dedicated capacity across a number of locations, including on what the company says will be one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia's latest AI-specialist Vera Rubin chips.

Meta has also committed to purchase additional available compute capacity from Nebius, worth up to a total of $15 billion over five years.

"We are pleased to expand our significant partnership with Meta as part of securing more large, long-term capacity contracts to accelerate the build-out and growth of our core AI cloud business," Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said in a statement.

Nebius' stock surged 14% in pre-market trading.

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