Meta is taking a major step to strengthen its artificial intelligence infrastructure by setting up a new division called Meta Compute. The unit has been created to oversee the company’s rapidly expanding AI data centre plans, as Meta prepares for a massive increase in computing capacity over the coming years.
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said, the company is preparing for long-term scale. “Meta is planning to build tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time,” he said.
Meta Compute will be jointly led by Santosh Janardhan, head of global infrastructure, and Daniel Gross. Gross previously led Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and joined Meta after the company failed to acquire the startup. Meta also acquired Gross’s investment fund, NFDG, as part of the move.
While Gross will focus on long-term capacity planning, supplier partnerships, and business modelling, Janardhan will continue to manage Meta’s technical architecture, silicon strategy, and data center operations. The team will also work closely with Dina Powell McCormick, a former senior government advisor and investment banking executive, who has joined to help build partnerships with governments and sovereign entities to develop and finance Meta’s infrastructure.
The new division complements Meta’s broader AI push, which includes a $14.8 billion investment for a 49% stake in data-labeling firm Scale AI and the hiring of its chief executive, Alexandr Wang, to lead a new superintelligence lab.
Meta has already signaled sharply rising capital expenditure, warning investors that spending in 2026 will be significantly higher than the record levels seen in 2025. Along with building its own gigawatt-scale data centres, Meta has signed major cloud and infrastructure deals, including agreements valued above $10 billion with one cloud provider, $14.2 billion with CoreWeave, $3 billion with Nebius, and discussions underway for a potential $20 billion deal with Oracle.
To fund its 2 GW Hyperion data centre, Meta entered a $27 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital, which is covering 80% of the cost. Earlier this month, Meta also announced nuclear energy partnerships that could provide access to up to 6.6 GW of power.
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