Meta to establish ‘Meta Compute’ initiative to build gigawatt-scale capacity

Meta will ​establish Meta Compute to construct ‌tens of gigawatts ​of computing infrastructure this decade and hundreds of gigawatts more in the future, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.

The Meta Compute effort will be spearheaded ​by Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head ⁠of global infrastructure and co-head of engineering, and Daniel Gross, according to ​Zuckerberg’s social media post.

They ⁠will collaborate closely with Dina Powell McCormick, who has joined Meta as president and ‌vice chairman, he said.

Janardhan ‌will continue to oversee Meta’s technical architecture, software stack, ‍silicon program, developer productivity and the construction and operation of ‍the company’s global data centre fleet and network.

Gross will take the lead on a newly formed group focused on long-term capacity strategy, supplier partnerships, industry analysis, planning and business modeling.

Meta ⁠has been scrambling to stay relevant in Silicon Valley’s ​artificial-intelligence race after its Llama ⁠4 model met with a poor reception. It committed as much as $72 billion in 2025 capital spending.