Meta's Janardhan to Step Down as Infra Chief in Early 2027

Santosh Janardhan, Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, told staff on Wednesday that he will step down from leading the infrastructure organization in early 2027, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. He did not give a reason.

His successor is Dave Brown, who joined Meta earlier this year as vice president of infrastructure after nearly two decades at Amazon Web Services, where he oversaw computing and machine learning services. In the memo, Janardhan said Brown possesses "the operational depth and technical instincts required to turn Meta's expanding computational capacity into greater deployment velocity for product teams."

Janardhan will remain through the first quarter of 2027 to help with the handover and will then advise as chief technology officer of Meta Compute, the group formed in January to plan how Meta secures computing power for AI, alongside president Dina Powell McCormick and Daniel Gross. The change lands as Meta expects capital spending of up to $145 billion this year, with about $825 billion in future commitments tied mostly to data centers and cloud computing. It is the third senior Meta leadership move we've logged in recent days.