A New Crisis Emerges in America, Facebook Urges Employees to Save Money

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia –The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has already caused numerous crises. In addition to waves of layoffs, clean water shortages, and soaring electricity bills, there is also a global memory chip shortage that has triggered price increases for consumer electronics devices such as laptops and cell phones.

Not only that, but now the United States (US), one of the centers of AI development, is also facing a new crisis. Google has even had to restrict Meta’s use of its Gemini AI model after the social media company’s failure.

This restriction was imposed because Meta reportedly requested computing capacity beyond Google’s ability to provide. This information was revealed in a Financial Times report.

The report stated that Google, which is part of Alphabet, informed Meta around March that it could not meet the full Gemini capacity the company wanted to purchase.

The computing capacity shortage reportedly disrupted and delayed several internal AI projects at Facebook’s parent company. The Financial Times also reported that several other Google customers were also affected, albeit on a smaller scale.

Meta is said to be the company most affected because it has very high demand for Google’s AI models.

Due to these restrictions, Meta reportedly asked its employees to be more conservative in their use of AI tokens. For your information, AI tokens are units used to measure the use of AI services.

This report comes as technology companies continue to invest billions of dollars in chips and build data centers.

However, the industry still faces difficulties in obtaining sufficient computing capacity to meet the surge in demand for AI services.

As reported by Reuters on Monday (June 29, 2026), Google Cloud’s revenue reached US$20 billion in the first quarter ending in March

However, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said limited computing capacity was hampering what could have been higher growth, while also nearly doubling the backlog in the cloud unit compared to the previous quarter.

SOURCE : CNBC INDONESIA