Meta's longtime infrastructure head Santosh Janardhan to step down

At a glance

Santosh Janardhan, Meta's longtime head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, is stepping down. Dave Brown, who joined earlier this year, will replace him. Janardhan will stay through a transition next year and then move into an advisory role on Meta Compute.

Key points

1. 1

   Janardhan joined Meta in 2009 and helped the company grow into a huge internet presence.

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   His successor, Dave Brown, spent 19 years at Amazon focusing on compute, cloud, and AI.

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   Earlier this year, Janardhan was put in charge of Meta Compute, which scales the company's data center investments.

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   The reason for his departure has not been disclosed.

Why it matters

Meta's data center and infrastructure spending is growing fast as it competes in AI, so changing the leader of this area shows how central AI infrastructure is to the company's strategy.

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