Meta’s longtime head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, who joined the Facebook parent in 2009, is to leave the company next year, Meta said.

Janardhan, who is also co-head of engineering, is to be replaced by Dave Brown, who joined Meta as vice-president of infrastructure earlier this year.

Transition period

Before joining Meta, Brown worked at Amazon Web Services for 19 years, focusing on compute, cloud, and AI, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Meta said Janardhan would remain with the company during a transition period, with Bloomberg reporting that he is expected to continue through the first quarter.

Soaring investments

In a memo to staff reported by Bloomberg, Janardhan indicated no reason for his departure.

The move comes at a time of soaring investment in data centres by large tech companies including Meta, as they rush to build computing power for AI services.