Anthropic Hires Google's Former Data Center Design Chief, Adding to Wave of Infrastructure Departures

His arrival adds another senior infrastructure executive to Anthropic's ranks. Winnie Leung now leads data center infrastructure at the company, Brett Rogers moved after overseeing construction activities at Google, and Liwen Mao, previously a staff data center system architect at Google, leads Anthropic's data center design work.

Adam Johnson spent a decade at Google before joining Anthropic in October as its data center electrical lead. Peter Sarossy, a 20-year Google veteran, joined in January as a staff member working on data center security engineering, and Zach Miller arrived after 17 years at Google to take responsibility for data center operations management within Anthropic's infrastructure organization. Scarlett Chen, previously involved with advanced technology and innovation at Google, now works at Anthropic as a member of technical staff.

The recruitment extends beyond engineering. Sana Ouji joined Anthropic's energy team in April to help expand its data center portfolio, Mike Brinker followed from Google a month later to take responsibility for capacity delivery, and Asad Malik subsequently joined to lead compute finance strategy. Together the appointments give Anthropic staff with experience spanning construction, electrical systems, security, operations, energy, capacity planning and infrastructure finance, a range of functions required to develop and operate increasingly large computing facilities.

Wilson's career before Google included a stint as Amazon's European design and construction leader. He also served as chief of staff in the British Army and as infrastructure director at NATO.

In a LinkedIn post, Wilson described the move as another demanding infrastructure assignment. "Leading global infrastructure delivery across data centers and subsea programs taught me two enduring truths," he wrote. "Scale is humbling, but high-trust teams make the extraordinary feel routine. Clear intent, rigorous operational control, and calm execution will always beat complexity." Of his new role, he said: "The stakes and scale have never been higher, and I'm eager to get stuck in."

The hires come as Anthropic continues to build its personnel around data center capacity. For Google, the steady migration of senior infrastructure specialists presents a retention problem that may require stronger incentives, clearer career paths and measures to keep critical expertise inside the company, TechRadar reported.