The Former Academic Guiding OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout (4 minute read)

Sachin Katti joined OpenAI in November to serve as its head of industrial compute. Before OpenAI, Katti spent than 15 years as a Stanford professor and four years working at Intel. Katti now works on finding additional data center capacity and lining up ways to get components like AI chips and memory. This has proved challenging, as data center operators are contending with power grid constraints, memory chip shortages, and growing pushback from local communities.