# A Script for Mark Zuckerberg

> This Stratechery piece lays out a strategic script for how Mark Zuckerberg can justify Meta's enormous AI spending, and the argument hinges on a well-timed accident of history. Meta ramped up GPU purchases in 2022, roughly a month before ChatGPT arrived, leaving it with capacity precisely when the world discovered it needed it. The core idea is that Meta already knows how to turn compute into money. When the company shifted to an algorithmic feed in 2018, investors panicked before that machine-learning bet drove years of growth. The essay argues the same playbook, using models to squeeze more value out of every pixel of advertising, can absorb the cost of today's infrastructure, with rented GPU capacity and clawback terms proposed as a fresh enterprise revenue line. It is worth reading because it reframes the capex anxiety hanging over big tech. Instead of asking whether AI spending is reckless, it asks what business model makes it rational, and for Meta the answer is the one it has always had: better targeting, more monetized attention.

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## Wortins' read

This Stratechery piece lays out a strategic script for how Mark Zuckerberg can justify Meta's enormous AI spending, and the argument hinges on a well-timed accident of history. Meta ramped up GPU purchases in 2022, roughly a month before ChatGPT arrived, leaving it with capacity precisely when the world discovered it needed it. The core idea is that Meta already knows how to turn compute into money. When the company shifted to an algorithmic feed in 2018, investors panicked before that machine-learning bet drove years of growth. The essay argues the same playbook, using models to squeeze more value out of every pixel of advertising, can absorb the cost of today's infrastructure, with rented GPU capacity and clawback terms proposed as a fresh enterprise revenue line. It is worth reading because it reframes the capex anxiety hanging over big tech. Instead of asking whether AI spending is reckless, it asks what business model makes it rational, and for Meta the answer is the one it has always had: better targeting, more monetized attention.

## Source

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