Meta infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan will step down in early 2027, and former AWS executive Dave Brown will take over operational leadership of the division. The handoff comes as Meta raises its AI spending plans.
Meta Platforms' infrastructure chief and engineering co-head Santosh Janardhan will step down in early 2027. According to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg News, he plans to hand operational leadership of the division to Dave Brown.
Janardhan will stay through the first quarter of 2027 to ensure an orderly handover and advise as chief technology officer of Meta Compute.
A longtime insider hands off to a recent hire
Janardhan joined Facebook in October 2009 and spent more than 17 years building the hardware networks, custom silicon programs and global data center fleet behind the company's growth into a $1.7 trillion business.
Brown is a former Amazon Web Services executive who joined Meta earlier this year. He spent nearly two decades at AWS, most recently as senior vice president overseeing compute and machine-learning services. In the memo, Janardhan said Brown has the operational depth and technical instincts to turn Meta's expanding computational capacity into greater deployment velocity for product teams.
The handoff lands after Meta raises its capex outlook
Meta raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditures outlook to between $135 billion and $145 billion in its third-quarter report. The company deployed $34.91 billion in capital expenditures in the quarter alone.
Janardhan also co-led the Meta Compute allocation group with Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick and Vice President Daniel Gross. Crypto Briefing reports that Meta Compute launched in January 2026, with a stated target of tens of gigawatts of AI-driven compute capacity by the end of the decade.
Investors will closely monitor how Brown navigates the company's capital allocation cycle heading into 2027.
Sources: Investing.com, Crypto Briefing
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