{"id":1015526,"date":"2026-06-19T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015526"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:05:43","slug":"metas-bengaluru-engineering-hub-plays-key-role-in-silicon-development-santosh-janardhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/metas-bengaluru-engineering-hub-plays-key-role-in-silicon-development-santosh-janardhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s Bengaluru engineering hub plays key role in silicon development: Santosh Janardhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have an opportunity to build arguably the biggest infrastructure build-out in the history of the planet,\u201d said Santosh Janardhan, global head of infrastructure at Meta Platforms, who is leading CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s ambitious \u2018Meta Compute\u2019 initiative to build tens of gigawatts of AI data centre capacity over the next decade. <\/p>\n<p>The executive, who oversees Meta\u2019s $115-$135 billion annual spending on AI compute, told ET\u2019s Himanshi Lohchab that the company has huge infrastructure plans for India. \u201cI was in Jamnagar (Gujarat) yesterday with Aakash (Ambani) and the work there is underway at record speed,\u201d he said referring to the 168 megawatts data centre deal with Reliance Industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have an opportunity to build arguably the biggest infrastructure build-out in the history of the planet,\u201d said Santosh Janardhan, global head of infrastructure at Meta Platforms, who is leading CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s ambitious \u2018Meta Compute\u2019 initiative to build tens of gigawatts of AI data centre capacity over the next decade. The executive, who oversees Meta\u2019s $115-$135 billion annual spending on AI compute, told ET\u2019s Himanshi Lohchab that the company has huge infrastructure plans for India. \u201cI was in Jamnagar (Gujarat) yesterday with Aakash (Ambani) and the work there is underway at record speed,\u201d he said referring to the 168 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015543,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015526\/revisions\/1015543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}