Meta to establish 'Meta Compute' initiative

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will establish Meta Compute to construct ‌tens of gigawatts of computing infrastructure this decade and hundreds of gigawatts more in the future.

"Meta is planning to build tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time," Zuckerberg said in the post. "How we engineer, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will become a strategic advantage."

Meta posted notice of its intention to make a major move in this area during its second quarter earnings call last year, when it unveiled plans for massive expenditure in the pursuit of what Zuckerberg calls "personal superintelligence," or the idea that AI can surpass human performance in most cognitive tasks. The company committed a mammoth $72 billion to AI infrastructure in its 2025 fiscal year alone.

The Meta Compute effort will be spearheaded by Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head ⁠of global infrastructure and co-head of engineering, and Daniel Gross. They ⁠will collaborate closely with Dina Powell McCormick, who has joined Meta as president and ‌vice chairman. Meta ⁠has been scrambling to stay relevant in the AI race after its Llama ⁠4 model met with a poor reception.

Janardhan will focus on Meta's "technical architecture, software stack, silicon program, developer productivity, and building and operating our global data center fleet and network," according to Zuckerberg's post. Gross' remit will be "long-term capacity strategy, supplier partnerships, industry analysis, planning, and business modeling," Zuckerberg added.