When you need to raise enormous sums of money for AI data centers, it helps to have Jamie Dimon’s phone number. Dina Powell McCormick, Meta’s newly installed President and Vice Chairman, has spent the past several months doing exactly what Mark Zuckerberg hired her to do: working her Wall Street rolodex to finance one of the most ambitious AI infrastructure buildouts in corporate history.
Powell McCormick, who was appointed to the role on January 12, 2026, after previously serving on Meta’s board, now co-leads Meta Compute. That’s the division responsible for the company’s sprawling data center operations, energy procurement, and capital investment strategy.
A Goldman pedigree meets Silicon Valley ambition
Powell McCormick’s resume reads like it was engineered in a lab specifically for this job. She spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs, where she climbed to the management committee and served as global head of sovereign investment banking. Before that, she held the title of deputy national security advisor under President Trump, giving her the kind of bipartisan government relationships that prove useful when you’re trying to negotiate energy deals and navigate regulatory approvals across multiple jurisdictions.
