Meta Platforms (META) Is Down 5.0% After Reprioritizing AI Infrastructure And Wearables Over Metaverse Ambitions

• Earlier this month, Meta Platforms appointed former Goldman Sachs executive and ex-board member Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice‑chairman to drive its long-term AI infrastructure build-out, capital partnerships, and data center financing, while also continuing large-scale investments in clean energy and power purchase agreements.
• At the same time, Meta has begun reallocating resources away from its metaverse-heavy Reality Labs unit toward AI-enabled wearables and smart glasses, signaling a wider repositioning of the company around artificial intelligence as its core technology and hardware focus.
• We’ll now examine how Meta’s multiyear AI data center and clean energy build-out could reshape its investment narrative and risk profile.

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Meta Platforms Investment Narrative Recap

To own Meta today, you need to believe its heavy AI infrastructure and data center build will translate into stronger long term earnings power without permanently crushing margins. The biggest near term catalyst remains whether AI driven ad tools and engagement gains keep offsetting rising capital spending, while the main risk is that multi year AI and hardware bets fail to monetize quickly. Dina Powell McCormick’s appointment and the Reality Labs refocus do not yet materially change that equation.

The most relevant recent announcement here is Meta’s long duration clean energy and nuclear power agreements, including 20 year power purchase deals with Vistra. Those commitments underscore how central large scale, reliable power is to Meta’s AI data center buildout and therefore to the same catalyst investors are watching closely: whether AI infrastructure spending can translate into durable returns before regulatory, cost, or execution issues bite too hard.

Yet against this opportunity, investors should also be aware of the risk that soaring AI capex outpaces revenue growth and squeezes free cash flow…

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Meta Platforms’ narrative projects $275.9 billion revenue and $92.1 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 15.6% yearly revenue growth and about a $20.6 billion earnings increase from $71.5 billion today.

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Exploring Other Perspectives

Members of the Simply Wall St Community see Meta’s fair value anywhere between US$538 and about US$1,053 across 100 separate views, so you can compare your own assumptions against a wide spread of expectations. Set that against Meta’s heavy AI data center and clean energy build, which keeps magnifying both the upside from stronger engagement and the risk that spending runs well ahead of revenue for longer.

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