Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has shared further details about the responsibilities Dina Powell McCormick will take on after confirming that the former Meta board member is formally joining the company as president and vice chairman. The announcement follows Zuckerberg’s earlier disclosure of her appointment and sheds light on her role within a newly launched initiative known as Meta Compute, which is focused on expanding and managing the company’s large scale infrastructure investments. The move highlights Meta’s intent to centralize its long term infrastructure planning as artificial intelligence becomes a core driver of its business strategy.
According to Zuckerberg, Meta Compute will oversee the design, investment approach, and partnerships required to support the company’s expanding technical footprint. He stated that Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts of capacity over the course of this decade, with the potential to scale to hundreds of gigawatts or more over a longer horizon. Zuckerberg emphasized that the way Meta engineers, finances, and collaborates on this infrastructure will serve as a strategic advantage as competition intensifies around AI capabilities. The scale described places Meta among the most aggressive infrastructure investors in the technology sector, reflecting the increasing energy and compute demands of advanced AI systems.
Leadership responsibilities within Meta Compute have been clearly defined. Zuckerberg said that Meta’s head of global engineering, Santosh Janardhan, will lead the initiative at a top level, coordinating across technical and operational teams. Daniel Gross, who recently joined Meta after serving as Chief Executive Officer of Safe Superintelligence, will lead a new group focused on long term capacity strategy. His remit includes supplier partnerships, industry analysis, planning, and business modeling, areas that are increasingly critical as demand for compute hardware, energy, and specialized facilities accelerates across the industry. Gross’s role is expected to shape how Meta secures and allocates resources over extended timeframes.
Within this structure, Dina Powell McCormick is expected to focus on partnerships beyond the traditional technology supply chain. Zuckerberg said she will work closely with governments and sovereign entities to support the building, deployment, investment, and financing of Meta’s infrastructure projects. This aspect of her role reflects the growing intersection between technology companies and public sector stakeholders, particularly as data centers, energy sourcing, and national infrastructure considerations become matters of economic and strategic importance. Powell McCormick’s background in policy and international engagement positions her to navigate these relationships as Meta expands its physical and energy footprint globally.
Meta’s emphasis on infrastructure is closely tied to its ambitions around what Zuckerberg has described as AI superintelligence. The company has been steadily increasing spending on data centers, networking, and specialized hardware to support increasingly complex AI models. As part of this effort, Meta recently announced three agreements to purchase large amounts of nuclear power to help supply energy to its data center operations. These agreements underline the scale of Meta’s energy requirements and its willingness to explore long term power arrangements to ensure reliability and capacity as AI workloads grow.
Zuckerberg has previously stated that Meta expects to invest up to $600 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure and related jobs by 2028. The launch of Meta Compute and the formalization of leadership roles within it signal a more coordinated approach to managing that level of spending. By aligning engineering leadership, long term planning, supplier strategy, and government partnerships under a single initiative, Meta is positioning itself to manage both the technical and geopolitical complexities associated with building and operating infrastructure at unprecedented scale.
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