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Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced plans for a $95bn (£71bn) fundraising to cover its AI expenditure, even as Elon Musk warned that funding for smaller players in the sector was drying up. The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is a leading investor in AI and is ploughing multibillion-dollar sums into datacentres, the central nervous systems of the technology. Meta’s announcement on Monday came after Musk added to the pressure on “neocloud” datacentre providers – which lease out computing power to AI co…

By the Truvace desk2 min read1 sourceEvidence: Emerging · 42/100 — News report · 1 independent sourceJournalismTRV-2026-2272· cite & verify
Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

In brief

Meta announced a two-part fundraising of up to $95bn in new stock to pay for AI infrastructure. The plan includes a $35bn underwritten public offering, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom expressing interest in buying up to $5bn, and a $60bn at-the-market programme of non-voting class C shares.

The move highlights a split in AI financing, where well-capitalised firms can tap equity markets while smaller datacentre lessors face debt pressure. Whether AI demand will grow fast enough to service neocloud borrowing is unresolved, and the main warnings come from Musk, a rival with his own datacentre interests.

Main points

  1. Meta plans $35bn in underwritten public offerings plus a $60bn at-the-market offering.
  2. Class C shares carry no voting rights, so Zuckerberg's control is not diluted.
  3. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom showed interest as cornerstone investors in up to $5bn of stock.
  4. Nebius, CoreWeave and Iren shares fell more than 2% premarket after Musk's comments, then rose after trading began.
  5. CoreWeave has roughly $35bn in borrowing, and its stock has fallen by more than a third over the past month.

The problem

Smaller AI datacentre providers face tightening credit and heavy borrowing, with Elon Musk predicting many of the more than 200 neocloud firms will fail or be consolidated.

The rundown

Meta said the proceeds will support continued investment in AI infrastructure and what it calls personal super intelligence. Its shares rose in premarket trading on the news.

Musk, replying to venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, said debt markets had shut off money to firms without substantial revenue independent of AI datacentres. Palihapitiya had described neoclouds as disorganized and poorly capitalized.

Saxo UK analyst Neil Wilson said the reactions showed investors back financially robust companies. SpaceX reported a $40bn deal with Apollo Global Management to lease chips for AI datacentres, while CoreWeave's chief executive reportedly said the market misunderstands the company.

Sources

  1. JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-26

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