Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, has joined Nvidia as vice president of its DSX Platform, according to his LinkedIn profile. He joined OpenAI in March 2025 after the Stargate announcement and departed in August during a broader executive exodus. Nvidia’s DSX division helps customers design and build AI data centers to the company’s specifications. The move comes as OpenAI plans to go public in 2027 and expands infrastructure partnerships, including a 10-gigawatt Ohio data center backed by $105 billion in Nvidia credit support for SB Energy on OpenAI’s behalf. OpenAI would lease the facility and fill it with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Nvidia chips. Before OpenAI, Malone worked on data center infrastructure at Meta and Google.