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Published Wed, Nov 11 2026 1:05 PM EST Updated 15 Min Ago

Key Points

Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan will leave in 2027.

Janardhan's successor, former AWS senior vice president David Brown, will lead Meta's infrastructure efforts and serve as CTO of the Meta Compute initiative, spearheaded by Dina Powell McCormick and Daniel Gross.

The executive move underscores Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to expand the company's data center operations under newer leaders at a time of increasing investor scrutiny on capital expenditure spending by the social media giant and its hyperscaler rivals.

CEO of Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg attends a press briefing outside the West Wing of the White House on Sept.…