# OpenAI puts compute and data centres under Uday Ruddarraju as Sachin Katti steps back

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/stories/openai-puts-compute-and-data-centres-under-uday-ruddarraju-as-sachin-d943cbfc
Date: 14 Oct 2026
About: [OpenAI](https://technooptimist.io/companies/openai.md) · [Stargate](https://technooptimist.io/computing/stargate.md)
Original source: https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-ruddarraju-compute-infrastructure

OpenAI has placed its infrastructure and compute businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who will run the Stargate and other data-centre efforts. Sachin Katti is leaving his infrastructure role within weeks and stays on as an adviser; the article gives no exact exit date.

## Key facts

- Ruddarraju ran infrastructure at xAI until July 2025, when he joined OpenAI; he became OpenAI's chief technology officer for compute in July 2026.
- At xAI he worked on the Grok 3 training run across 100,000 GPUs.
- Katti joined from Intel in late 2025, led the $30B Georgia build and ran GPT-Infra from July; that work moves to Richard Ho, the company's chip chief.
- Chris Malone, OpenAI's data-centre chief, left in August.

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