Chris Malone

Chris Malone is an engineer and infrastructure executive who served as Head of Data Centers at OpenAI from March 2025 until his departure in August 2026. He previously spent over a decade at Google as a Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director responsible for data center infrastructure, followed by nearly five years as a Distinguished Engineer at Meta. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, with a focus on heat transfer and thermodynamics, and is known for his expertise in data center power distribution, cooling, and physical hardware design.