OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive

OpenAI has put its compute and infrastructure businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI until July 2025. Sachin Katti, who had been overseeing infrastructure and led the $30B Georgia build, leaves the role within weeks and stays on as an adviser. OpenAI has put compute and infrastructure under one executive. Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI, takes both. Sachin Katti, who had been overseeing infrastructure, leaves within weeks. Bloomberg reported the change on Wednesday. Katti plans to stay on as an adviser, and the business leaders under him keep their jobs. Ruddarraju joined OpenAI in July 2025 and became chief technology officer for compute this July. At xAI he worked on the Grok 3 training run across 100,000 GPUs.