OpenAI Loses a Top Data Center Exec, as Stream of High-Profile Departures Continues
The departure adds to a string of exits as OpenAI pursues about $600 billion in compute spending by 2030, CNBC reported.
- OpenAI head of data centers Chris Malone has left the company, adding to a wave of recent executive departures at the artificial intelligence lab.
- Revenue chief Denise Dresser, product and business chief Fidji Simo, and longtime executive Brad Lightcap also recently exited, though OpenAI President Greg Brockman said he does not think the wave of exits is "actually that atypical."
- Malone, who previously served as a "distinguished engineer" at Meta and Google, oversaw infrastructure plans targeting roughly $600 billion in compute spending by 2030.
- As the company works to justify its $852 billion valuation, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees this month the company "will be a public company in 2027."
- The National Republican Senatorial Committee, or NRSC, warned last week that data centers are a "sleeper issue" for the midterm election cycle, as backlash against AI infrastructure mounts.
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OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = Another executive has left OpenAI, which is pursuing an initial public offering (IPO).
OpenAI's buildout chief is out as leasing comes back
OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomberg on Monday. Anissa Gardizy broke the story earlier that day […] This story continues at The Next Web
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