- Meta Compute seeks to oversee massive expansion of AI computing infrastructure
- The initiative reports directly to Mark Zuckerberg and operates at the highest level of the company.
- Tens of gigawatts are planned for this decade and hundreds are expected in the future.
Meta has established a new internal organization to oversee the expansion of its IT infrastructure for advanced artificial intelligence tools.
The new Meta Compute initiative operates at a higher level within the company and reports directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who says he plans to deploy tens of gigawatts this decade.
Over a longer period of time, the company expects capacity to increase to hundreds of gigawatts, far outpacing traditional data center growth patterns.
Meta Compute’s timing is notable, as the company spent approximately $72 billion on AI-related efforts in 2025, but the financial reward is still unclear.
Meta has emphasized that these investments are intended to generate economic benefits in the areas where data centers are built.
This issue has become more sensitive as communities question the impact of large facilities on electricity prices and water use.
The new organization brings together software, hardware, networking and facilities planning under one umbrella.
Meta has indicated that this structure is intended to ensure that hardware and software decisions remain aligned, which is necessary as AI workloads place different demands on systems compared to previous cloud services.
Meta Compute will be jointly led by Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross, with responsibilities split between execution and long-term planning.
Janardhan continues to oversee deeply technical areas, including systems architecture, internal silicon development, software layers, and the global data center fleet.
Gross will focus on defining future computing requirements, creating supply chains capable of delivering hardware at multi-gigawatt scale, and developing planning models that take into account industry changes and resource constraints.
Taken together, his mandate reflects an attempt to treat energy, land, equipment and networks as a single coordinated problem.
“Today we are establishing a new high-level initiative called Meta Compute,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Rags.
“Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts this decade and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time. How we design, invest and partner to build this infrastructure will become a strategic advantage.”
At the same time, Meta Compute separates the long-term capacity strategy from daily data center operations, which continue under existing infrastructure teams.
This split suggests that Meta is trying to avoid a reactive expansion driven solely by short-term demand.
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