Nov 7 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms ( META ) on Friday said

it will invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over

the next three years, including artificial intelligence data

centers, as the social media giant races to build infrastructure

to power its AI ambitions.

Meta has doubled down on AI, with a target of achieving

superintelligence, a theoretical milestone where machines

outthink humans.

It has pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to build

several large AI data centers and plans bigger outlays to meet

compute needs.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg told U.S. President Donald Trump that

Meta will invest "at least $600 billion" in the U.S. over the

next several years at a White House dinner in September.

Zuckerberg said Meta is building compute because "it's the

right strategy to aggressively front-load capacity so we're

prepared for the most optimistic cases," on the company's recent

earnings call.

Meta has forecast "notably larger" capital expenses next

year thanks to investments in artificial intelligence, including

aggressively building data centers to power its AI push.

Last month, the social media giant sealed a $27 billion

financing deal with Blue Owl Capital to fund its Louisiana data

center, its biggest project globally.

Meta said in October it would invest $1.5 billion in a data

center in Texas, breaking ground on its 29th such facility

globally.