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Meta's Head of Infrastructure Santosh Janardhan Departs, Dave Brown to Replace

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Meta's longtime head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, is stepping down after 15 years with the company. He will be replaced by Dave Brown, who previously spent 19 years at Amazon working on compute, cloud, and AI. Janardhan will transition to an advisory role within Meta Compute, the company's initiative to scale its data center investments and strategy, particularly in light of the ongoing AI race. AI

IMPACT This executive change at Meta could impact the company's infrastructure development and AI race strategy.

RANK_REASON A key executive departure and replacement at a major tech company.

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  1. TechCrunch AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Lucas Ropek ·

    Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure

    Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.

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