{"id":1042627,"date":"2026-10-12T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042627"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:59:57","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-tells-investors-metas-ai-investments-are-accelerating-every-part-of-the-business-and-to-irs-meta-says-our-ai-data-centers-are-an-experiment-that-could-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/mark-zuckerberg-tells-investors-metas-ai-investments-are-accelerating-every-part-of-the-business-and-to-irs-meta-says-our-ai-data-centers-are-an-experiment-that-could-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg tells investors Meta\u2019s AI investments are accelerating every part of the business; and to IRS, Meta says: Our AI data centers are an experiment that could fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg has spent two years telling investors that Meta&#8217;s AI spending is paying off across Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. When the company files its taxes, it tells the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a very different story. According to a New York Times report, Meta describes its AI data centers to the IRS as a large experiment that may not work.<\/p>\n<p>That framing lets Meta claim the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit, a break Congress created in 1981 to reward risky innovation. The payoff has been big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg has spent two years telling investors that Meta&#8217;s AI spending is paying off across Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. When the company files its taxes, it tells the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a very different story. According to a New York Times report, Meta describes its AI data centers to the IRS as a large experiment that may not work. That framing lets Meta claim the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit, a break Congress created in 1981 to reward risky innovation. The payoff has been big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042628,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042627\/revisions\/1042628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}