On Wednesday, Amazon's cloud chief Matt Garman sent his staff a memo no cloud company ever wants to write. Dave Brown, senior vice-president of AWS Compute and ML Services, member of the 28-person S-team that advises chief executive Andy Jassy, and one of the last remaining links to the founding of the cloud itself is leaving at the end of July .By Thursday, the wires had the departure, with the destination unknown. By Friday morning, people familiar with the matter had supplied the answer: Meta, where Brown will report to infrastructure head Santosh Janardhan and focus on the largest data-centre build-out in corporate history, a programme planning tens of gigawatts of capacity this decade and hundreds over time .About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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