# Former OpenAI Data Center Chief Is Now at Nvidia

> Nvidia hired an OpenAI data-center leader, showing that infrastructure skills are now as critical as AI research talent.

- Type: AI news
- Page: https://completeaitraining.com/news/former-openai-data-center-chief-is-now-at-nvidia/
- Published: 2026-09-26
- Updated: 2026-09-26
- Author: Jeroen Erne
- Jobs: Executives and strategy

Nvidia has hired a former OpenAI data-center leader, a move that comes as competition intensifies around the infrastructure needed to train and serve frontier models.

The hire underscores how expertise in power, construction, networking, and deployment is becoming as strategically scarce as model researchers themselves.

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