{"id":988615,"date":"2026-01-29T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988615"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:26:19","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-meta-spent-millions-of-dollars-in-two-months-to-tell-americans-datacentres-are-not-bad-they-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-spent-millions-of-dollars-in-two-months-to-tell-americans-datacentres-are-not-bad-they-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta &#8216;spent&#8217; millions of dollars in two months to tell Americans: Datacentres are not bad, they bring &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Meta knows that datacentres, which are the backbone of artificial intelligence (AI) industry, may become a hot political issue. This has made the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company spend $6.4 million to run a series of ads promoting the benefits of data centres that ran across several states in the US in the months of November and December. According to a story in the New York Times, &#8220;The advertisement began with a panning shot of Altoona, Iowa, a town of 20,000 near Des Moines. The camera moved from a diner to a farm to a high school football field. To the pluck of guitar strings, a voice-over promoted a boon for the local economy. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing jobs here,\u201d the ad said. \u201cFor us, and for our next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Meta knows that datacentres, which are the backbone of artificial intelligence (AI) industry, may become a hot political issue. This has made the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company spend $6.4 million to run a series of ads promoting the benefits of data centres that ran across several states in the US in the months of November and December. According to a story in the New York Times, &#8220;The advertisement began with a panning shot of Altoona, Iowa, a town of 20,000 near Des Moines. The camera moved from a diner to a farm to a high school football field. To [&hellip;]<\/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-988615","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\/988615","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=988615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}