Meta is reportedly looking to poach a senior executive from Amazon’s cloud division as it accelerates its push into the cloud computing business.
The hiring push comes as Meta builds out its new cloud initiative, Meta Compute, which was first reported by Bloomberg on July 1, 2026. The service is designed to monetize the company’s excess AI computing capacity by offering raw compute rentals and hosted access to its AI models to external developers and enterprises.
Meta Compute and the $125 billion bet
The company plans to spend between $125 billion and $145 billion on AI and data centers in 2026 alone. Meta Compute will let outside developers and businesses tap into either raw GPU capacity or hosted AI models.
The project is being led by Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, alongside Daniel Gross from Superintelligence Labs and company president Dina Powell McCormick.
