Meta Platforms Inc. said it has finished bringing its Kansas City, Missouri, data center online, with the facility already handling live traffic. The site adds capacity for the company’s expanding artificial-intelligence workloads and supports services across its social-media and virtual-reality platforms. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg also announced that Meta has started work on a new generation of AI-optimized data centers, with the first installation scheduled to be completed in 2026. The company did not disclose investment figures or the number of locations under development, but said the purpose-built designs will accelerate training and deployment of large language models and other AI applications.