Meta CFO Susan Li admits: Salaries adding big to the expense; says: Employee compensation costs, particularly …
Facebook-parent Meta in its third-quarter earnings call revealed a sharp rise in the opening on artificial intelligence, with employee compensation emerging as one of the biggest cost driver for the company, as per chief financial officer Susan Li. This revelation from the company comes at a time when investor concerns are growing over Meta’s ballooning capital expenditures and uncertain timelines for returns. As reported by Business Insider, Meta is now expected to spend $70–72 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025, which is slightly higher from its proviso forecast of $66–72 billion. The report further adds that this figure is said to climb higher in 2026 as the company is working on expanding its data centres, cloud services and staffing for Meta Superintelligence Labs, a new division focused on developing AI models that could eventually surpass human capabilities.
