Trump Insider Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President
Mark Zuckerberg has played his ‘Trump’ card with a new appointment.
Meta revealed this week that Dina Powell McCormick—former Trump administration insider and Goldman Sachs powerhouse—is joining as president and vice chairman to spearhead a $600 billion infrastructure plan.
Powell McCormick stepped into this newly created role as Meta simultaneously announced the creation of Meta Compute, a new organization designed to build data centers consuming “tens of gigawatts” this decade. The scale is gigantic—infrastructure that will eventually reach “hundreds of gigawatts or more.”
The Trump connection
Powell McCormick brings political firepower straight from the highest levels of government. She previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump and held senior roles under President George W. Bush.
Trump himself weighed in immediately, calling Powell McCormick “a fantastic, and very talented, person” who served his administration with “strength and distinction” in a Truth Social post. Her role will focus specifically on “partnering with governments and sovereigns” to build and finance Meta’s massive infrastructure projects, Zuckerberg’s announcement revealed.
Powell McCormick brings 16 years of Wall Street firepower from Goldman Sachs, where she served on the Management Committee and led Global Sovereign Investment Banking. She resigned from Meta’s board just last month to take on this executive role—a move that signals serious planning behind the scenes.
Meta’s infrastructure plan
Meta Compute is a top-level organization that will oversee data centers consuming massive amounts of power. To put this in perspective, Meta’s Louisiana data center alone will scale to five gigawatts—enough power for millions of homes, packed into a structure Zuckerberg described as “nearly the size of Manhattan.”
The company has committed to investing up to $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs by 2028. That’s not a typo—we’re talking about more money than most countries’ entire GDP.
Behind the scenes, Meta has also become one of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of nuclear power through new energy partnerships announced recently. Meta Compute will be led by infrastructure head Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross, reporting directly to Zuckerberg.
Super goals
This restructuring signals Meta’s all-in bet on achieving “superintelligence”—AI systems that can outperform humans at many tasks. Powell McCormick’s appointment comes as Meta accelerates its pursuit of frontier AI and personal superintelligence, marking a dramatic escalation in the tech giant’s ambitions.
The competitive pressure is relentless. Meta has been pouring billions into data center buildouts to compete with AI rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Powell McCormick will spearhead efforts to build new capital partnerships and expand Meta’s long-term investment capacity, giving the company access to previously untapped funding sources.
Powell McCormick’s unique combination of Wall Street expertise and government relationships will help Meta navigate the complex regulatory and financial landscape.
But there is bad news. Meta is preparing to eliminate approximately 1,500 positions from its Reality Labs division this week, marking another shift in the tech giant’s strategic priorities.
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