Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenAI’s data centers lead Chris Malone left after five months, adding to leadership churn around its infrastructure buildout.

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<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-head-of-data-centers-has-left-company-6d24fd83"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260825/i40.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260825/p40#a260825p40" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anissa Gardizy / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-head-of-data-centers-has-left-company-6d24fd83">Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power</p>