Overview
- Janardhan, a Meta executive since 2009 who co-led the company’s infrastructure and engineering efforts, said he will leave in 2027 and will support the handoff through the first quarter of 2027.
- David Brown will formally take charge of Meta’s infrastructure organization and serve as chief technical officer of Meta Compute after reporting to Janardhan since his July hire.
- Brown spent nearly 19 years at Amazon Web Services building compute and machine‑learning services, a background that aligns with Meta’s push to scale internal AI systems and potentially offer capacity beyond its own apps.
- Meta is continuing very large capital spending for AI buildout with full‑year capex guidance in the roughly $135 billion to $145 billion range and recent negative free cash flow that has drawn investor and credit‑rating scrutiny.
- Meta Compute targets ‘tens of gigawatts’ of AI capacity by the end of the decade including plans to expand the Louisiana Hyperion site toward roughly 5 gigawatts and multi‑billion dollar investment, a build that will shape where Meta directs engineering priorities and spending.