Meta announced Monday a new $1 billion fund to support communities where the company owns, operates or is developing data centers, including Montgomery.
The Future Is for Everyone Fund will invest in locally identified priorities such as schools, teachers, first responders, energy and water infrastructure and other community needs. Meta said the initiative is intended to ensure that communities hosting infrastructure used to power artificial intelligence share directly in the benefits of those investments.
The company announced the fund alongside a new essay from Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlining his vision for making advanced artificial intelligence broadly available to individuals rather than concentrating it among a small number of companies, governments or institutions.
“We propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the primary purpose of superintelligence, and balance of power as the foundation of safety,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Meta described the initiative as part of a “community compact” between technology companies and communities that host data centers. Zuckerberg said sustainable infrastructure development should include high-paying local jobs, investments in schools and public services, stable energy costs and protections for water and environmental resources.
The Future Is for Everyone Fund was inspired in part by Meta’s experience in Richland Parish, Louisiana, where the company is building a large data center. Increased tax revenue associated with the investment helped provide local teachers with one-time $50,000 bonuses.
The national commitment builds on Meta’s growing presence in Alabama and continued investment in Montgomery. The company expanded its Montgomery data center project in September 2025, increasing its total investment in the capital region to more than $1.5 billion.
Once completed, the Montgomery campus is expected to encompass more than 1.3 million square feet, support more than 100 permanent operational jobs and employ about 1,500 skilled trade workers at peak construction. The project began in 2024 as an $800 million investment before Meta announced the expansion.
Meta has also partnered with Montgomery Public Schools to expand robotics, digital literacy and STEM education. The company helped launch a districtwide robotics program, supported training for certified coaches and co-sponsored CampIT 2025, which introduced nearly 300 eighth-grade students to mobile application development and AI robotics.
Meta says it has contributed more than $75 million to approximately 3,000 community projects supporting schools, nonprofits and local organizations in communities where the company operates or is developing data centers.
The community investment announcement comes as Meta expands its commitment to open-source artificial intelligence. The company released the model weights for Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model designed to perform complex, multistep tasks on consumer hardware without relying entirely on cloud infrastructure.
Meta said Muse Glimmer is designed to run on a supported laptop or a single consumer graphics processing unit while delivering strong performance for its class. Developers will be able to download, customize and operate the model for a variety of applications.
Meta also plans to release the model weights for Muse Spark 1.2 in the coming weeks. The company describes Muse Spark 1.2 as one of the world’s leading foundation models and part of its broader effort to make advanced AI tools more widely available.
Zuckerberg argued that open-source AI can encourage innovation, expand access and prevent technological power from becoming concentrated in too few hands. He also called for strong oversight, cooperation between AI companies and government and safeguards addressing cybersecurity, privacy and other potential risks.
“Open source is a positive and important force for both empowering people and preventing centralization that is detrimental for both safety and the economy,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Meta said the community fund, new AI models and continued investment in data center communities are part of its broader vision of artificial intelligence as a tool for individual opportunity, technological innovation and widely shared economic growth.
