Joel Kaplan
@joel_kaplan
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Chief Global Affairs Officer, Meta.
Washington, DC
Joined July 2011
Meta has 25 data centers across the US, with more to come, including the multi-gigawatt Hyperion cluster in Louisiana. Building and maintaining huge infrastructure projects like these create a big demand for good-paying blue collar jobs. Our New Albany data center supports
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I left Ohio optimistic not only for the future of our company, but for the country too. This is cutting edge American innovation in practice, and it’s paving the way for the future of the American economy too.
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Everyone was problem solving. I met server and network technicians figuring out how to shave minutes off their processes to speed up their operations, leaders grappling with complex logistical and organizational challenges, and teams fitting out Rapid Deployment Structures –
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I visited Meta’s data center in New Albany, Ohio last week. Everywhere I went was buzzing with activity. There was construction taking place left, right & center – not just to build the data centers themselves, but to lay fiber-optic cables, build roads, substations and
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We have a new AI data center on the way in El Paso, TX which will have the capacity to scale up to 1GW – the kind of massive compute capacity necessary for developing superintelligence & advancing AI research. This will be @Meta’s 25th data center in the US and 3rd in Texas – a
Today we’re announcing our next state-of-the-art data center in El Paso, Texas, that will have the ability to scale to 1GW. This new data center will help us to deliver top-tier AI models and product experiences as we build toward superintelligence. Learn more:
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In our most significant update to Instagram Teen Accounts since they launched last year, they’re going to be guided by PG-13 movie ratings by default. This means we’ll filter out content that doesn’t generally align with what teens would see in a PG-13 movie – and teens won’t
Teen Accounts will be guided by PG-13 movie ratings, meaning teens will see content on Instagram that’s similar to what they’d see in a PG-13 movie, by default. https://t.co/WBJx9bWyTx
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Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses and Neural Band are on sale today! They are the result of years of hard work, research, product development, and invention. It will change everything you knew about AI glasses. Can’t wait to hear what you think!
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Excited to share Vibes — a new feed in the Meta AI app for short-form, AI-generated videos.
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Really enjoyed talking with Nick Johnston of @axios about personal superintelligence, AI investment, regulation and more. And I think he enjoyed getting to try out our new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. We got through a lot in under 15 minutes thanks to Nick being a master of
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Really enjoyed my conversation with @borgebrende at UNGA. We covered a lot of ground – from personal superintelligence to the global AI race and more. Thanks to team @wef for organizing. #SDIM25
A Conversation with @joel_kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer, @Meta and @borgebrende (@wef) #SDIM25
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As a proud American company, Meta wants to play its part in ensuring the US and its closest allies have the best tools at their disposal to defend themselves, keep their citizens safe and their economies prosperous. Llama has been used to help develop advanced AI tools for the US
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We're expanding access to Llama to more key democratic US allies in Europe and Asia, as well as NATO and EU institutions.
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Llama is now available to all federal agencies through the @GSA OneGov initiative. No procurement required, just streamlined access. With Llama, agencies and public institutions can reimagine how they deliver services and get more for American taxpayers. They will have full
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GSA’s OneGov initiative now includes Meta’s open source AI models, facilitating and supporting AI adoption across the government
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1/ At Meta, we build tools like Teen Accounts to help make sure teens have safe and positive experiences online, while supporting industry-wide solutions to enhance youth safety.
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It was an honor to join President Trump and PM Starmer at Chequers to talk about the shared opportunities for the US & UK in tech. Combining our strengths on AI is at the heart of the new US-UK economic partnership, and one where Meta is proud to play a role. The UK has been a
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Check out the very cool new @OakleyMeta Vanguard @MetaRayBan Display + Meta Neural Band that Mark announced at #MetaConnect today. https://t.co/ZQ9FPwzOAE These products are amazing. The Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses have a high-res visual display large enough to read
We go together like AI and glasses—is that not an expression? It will be. Check out all the news from Connect 2025.
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It's hard to find any words at a moment like this. I'm devastated and horrified by Charlie Kirk's murder and completely heartbroken for his young family.
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