Meta Compute

Meta has confirmed that Santosh Janardhan, its long-serving infrastructure head and co-lead of engineering, will step down, with Dave Brown, a former Amazon executive who joined Meta earlier this year, taking over. Janardhan will stay through the transition as an advisor to Meta Compute before departing next year. The handover comes as Meta sharply scales AI data center investment, putting a new leader atop a critical infrastructure unit.

Meta's longtime head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, Santosh Janardhan, is stepping down and will move into an advisory role on Meta Compute before leaving next year. He is replaced by Dave Brown, who joined this year after 19 years at Amazon focused on compute, cloud, and AI. The transition comes as Meta scales data center investment and builds a cloud business to sell excess AI compute.