The head of data centers at OpenAI has reportedly left. At the risk of being a tad insensitive, can you imagine having that job title right now? For reference, here is the lede of a relevant Politico story from Monday: “The intensifying late-summer backlash against data centers is inspiring panic among some corners of the tech sector — amid fears that the industry is mishandling a political crisis that will stretch into 2028 and beyond.

An independent review of the recent hack involving OpenAI models has raised fresh concerns about the limits of human control over increasingly advanced AI.