OpenAI data center chief leaves the company

NOW: OpenAI's head of data centers, Chris Malone, has left the company.
The departure comes as OpenAI continues one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in the AI industry.
Data center execution is becoming increasingly important as frontier labs compete on compute capacity, power access and deployment speed.
For the broader AI trade, leadership turnover at this layer matters because infrastructure is now one of the biggest bottlenecks in scaling models.