OpenAI’s head of computing capacity to depart next month

OpenAI is losing the executive in charge of finding the computing power behind its AI models. Sachin Katti, the company’s head of computing capacity, is set to leave on November 15, 2026. The timing is notable. OpenAI now projects spending of approximately $750 billion on computing resources through 2030, which leaves the job of managing that spending with a new leader. Who is leaving, and who is stepping in Katti arrived at OpenAI from Intel in late 2025. His departure lands after nearly a year in the role. He will not vanish entirely. Katti is moving into an advisory position once he exits. Uday Ruddarraju has been promoted to run the company’s infrastructure and compute businesses. He has served as CTO of compute since July 2026 and previously worked as an executive at xAI, the Elon Musk-backed AI company that competes directly with OpenAI. The $750 billion shopping list OpenAI’s projected compute spending through 2030 now sits at approximately $750 billion, revised upward from an earlier estimate of around $600 billion. Under Katti, OpenAI leaned heavily on outside partners. The company expanded its cloud relationships with AWS and pursued large leasing projects instead of rely...