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Meta Creates ‘Meta Compute’ to Drive Gigawatt-Scale AI Infrastructure

The new unit centralizes Meta’s data-center expansion under CEO oversight to make infrastructure scale a competitive advantage.

Overview

  • Mark Zuckerberg said Meta targets tens of gigawatts of capacity this decade and hundreds of gigawatts over time.
  • The initiative will be led by infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan and AI executive Daniel Gross, reporting directly to Zuckerberg.
  • Dina Powell McCormick was tasked with securing government and sovereign partnerships and financing for the buildout.
  • Meta linked the effort to its previously stated plan to invest up to $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs by 2028.
  • The scale implies major power needs; one gigawatt is roughly half the output of the Hoover Dam, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.