"Zuckerberg said that Meta's head of global engineering Santosh Janardhan will lead the "top-level initiative" and that recent hire and former Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross will "lead a new group responsible for long-term capacity strategy, supplier partnerships, industry analysis, planning, and business modeling." McCormick is expected to "work on partnering with governments and sovereigns to build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta's infrastructure.""
"Meta has been investing heavily in infrastructure to fuel its AI "superintelligence" ambitions. The company also recently announced three agreements to buy massive amounts of nuclear power to help power its data centers. Zuckerberg has previously said he expects Meta to spend $600 billion on AI infrastructure and jobs by 2028."
Dina Powell McCormick will join Meta as president and vice chairman with a mandate to partner with governments and sovereigns to build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta's infrastructure. Meta has created a Meta Compute initiative to scale data center capacity dramatically. Santosh Janardhan will lead the top-level initiative while Daniel Gross will head long-term capacity strategy, supplier partnerships, industry analysis, planning, and business modeling. Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts this decade and hundreds over time, has arranged major nuclear power purchases, and projects roughly $600 billion in AI infrastructure and jobs spending by 2028.
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