Meta head of infrastructure will leave and be succeeded by former AWS cloud exec

Meta’s head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, will leave the company in the new year after working there since 2009. Former Amazon Web Services executive David Brown, who joined Meta in July, will take over infrastructure leadership as the company expands data centre capacity for its artificial intelligence ambitions.

Brown will also become chief technical officer of Meta Compute, an initiative led by president Dina Powell McCormick and technical leader Daniel Gross. Meta forecasts 2026 capital spending of $135 billion to $145 billion; it recorded negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion, and S&P Global Ratings changed its outlook on the company’s AA- credit rating from stable to negative. Janardhan said he would support the handover through the first quarter of 2027.