Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju to infrastructure role
OpenAI appointed Uday Ruddarraju to run its infrastructure and compute businesses, including Stargate, as it continued reshaping its data centre leadership and expanding spending plans.
- OpenAI appointed Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses.
- Ruddarraju had joined OpenAI last July, became CTO of Compute in July this year, and had previously worked at xAI and SpaceX.
- He replaced Sachin Katti, who had joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 and took over Stargate in March.
- OpenAI projected about $750 billion of spending on computing power through 2030, up from a prior estimate of roughly $600 billion.
OpenAI appointed Uday Ruddarraju to run its infrastructure and compute businesses, including its Stargate and other data centre work. The article said Bloomberg had first reported the promotion.
Ruddarraju joined OpenAI last July as head of compute and infrastructure, then became CTO of Compute in July this year. Before that, he worked at xAI and led infrastructure engineering at SpaceX.
He replaced Sachin Katti, who had joined from Intel in November 2025 and taken over the Stargate effort in March. OpenAI said Katti was expected to stay on as an adviser.
After Katti’s promotion, OpenAI data centre leaders Peter Hoeschele, Keith Heyde, Shamez Hemani and Chris Malone left. The company had expanded its cloud partnerships while its own data centre projects were still slow to come online, and it projected about $750 billion of compute spending through 2030.
Ruddarraju’s team had also gained several former xAI employees, including Brent Mayo, Aakash Verma, Amin Golnabi, Andrej Sulek, Johnathan Henley and Michael Roberson. The article said Michael Roberson joined OpenAI’s infrastructure division this month.
Named in this story
People
- Uday Ruddarraju
- was appointed to lead OpenAI’s infrastructure and compute businesses
- Sachin Katti
- was replaced by Ruddarraju and was expected to remain an adviser
- Peter Hoeschele
- left OpenAI after Katti’s promotion
- Keith Heyde
- left OpenAI after Katti’s promotion
- Shamez Hemani
- left OpenAI after Katti’s promotion
- Chris Malone
- left OpenAI after Katti’s promotion
- Brent Mayo
- was OpenAI’s head of data centre build and delivery
- Aakash Verma
- joined OpenAI from xAI
- Amin Golnabi
- joined OpenAI from xAI
- Andrej Sulek
- joined OpenAI from xAI
- Johnathan Henley
- joined OpenAI from xAI
- Michael Roberson
- joined OpenAI’s infrastructure division from xAI
Companies
- OpenAI
- appointed Uday Ruddarraju and oversaw the infrastructure and compute businesses
- Intel
- was Katti’s previous employer
- xAI
- was Ruddarraju’s former employer and the source of several later OpenAI hires
- SpaceX
- employed Ruddarraju in an infrastructure engineering role
Products and systems
- Stargate
- was one of the data centre efforts under Ruddarraju’s remit
How the source tells it
The article was written in a neutral, matter-of-fact register, with no distinct emotive framing beyond routine personnel and spending details.
No emotive framing was found in the original.