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Title: Head of Data Centres Company: Open AI Industry: Technology

As Head of Data Centers at OpenAI, Chris leads the design, construction and operation of infrastructure supporting some of the world’ s most powerful AI systems. His work underpins nextgeneration models and research operating at unprecedented compute scale. Before joining OpenAI, Chris shaped the data centre strategies of Meta, Google and Hewlett-Packard, pioneering innovations that redefined efficiency, scalability and sustainability across hyperscale environments. At Meta, he drove the shift to an AI-first data centre architecture, while at Google he led the invention and global deployment of multiple generations of advanced facility designs. His early work at HP tackled thermal and energy challenges from chip-level design to large-scale systems engineering. With more than 200 patents to his name, Chris is recognised across the industry for uniting hardware and software into seamlessly efficient architectures and remains a key voice in the evolution of sustainable, performance-driven data centre design.

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