[STEAM] Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

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are pushing up the price of Meta's Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50–$100 (about 12–20 percent) starting on April 19. In

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, the company cited the "global surge in the price of critical components—specifically memory chips—[that] is impacting almost every category of consumer electronics, including VR."

But unlike

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of the

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tech

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, Meta's own spending priorities are at least partly to blame for the rising prices of those components. The company's

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has directly contributed to the conditions that are now making its own Quest headsets more expensive.

Spending like a drunk sailor

Back in January, Meta announced that it

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on capital expenditures this year, up significantly from $72 billion in 2025 and just $28 billion as recently as 2023. The vast majority of that investment is going into AI infrastructure, including a recent

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(in addition to $14.2 billion originally committed) and

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(up from $1.5 billion initially).

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