Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the company is creating a new top-level organization, Meta Compute, to oversee the data centers and infrastructure underpinning its artificial intelligence strategy, signalling a sharper focus on compute capacity as a competitive differentiator.
The new unit will report directly to Zuckerberg and consolidate responsibility for building and scaling the infrastructure needed to support Meta’s AI models and products. Zuckerberg said Meta plans to build “tens of gigawatts” of capacity this decade, with “hundreds of gigawatts or more” over time, underscoring the scale of the company’s ambitions.
In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg stated, “Today we’re establishing a new top-level initiative called Meta Compute. Meta is planning to build tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time. How we engineer, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will become a strategic advantage.”
Meta Compute will be jointly led by Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, and Daniel Gross, who joined the company last year from AI startup Safe Superintelligence. Janardhan will continue to oversee Meta’s technical architecture, software stack, custom silicon, developer productivity, and the construction and operation of its global data center and network footprint. Gross will lead a new group focused on long-term capacity planning, supplier partnerships, industry analysis, and infrastructure-related business modelling.
The initiative will also work closely with Dina Powell McCormick, who recently joined Meta as president and vice chair. Powell McCormick will focus on partnerships with governments and sovereign entities to help build, deploy, and finance large-scale infrastructure projects. She previously served as a deputy national security adviser under President Donald Trump and spent more than 16 years at Goldman Sachs.
The move highlights how central infrastructure has become to Meta’s AI strategy, as leading technology companies race to secure power, land, and supply chains for data centers. Meta has said it plans to invest up to US$ 600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs, including AI data centers, by 2028.