xAI commissioning lead Michael Roberson joins OpenAI infrastructure team

Michael Roberson, former lead commissioning engineer at xAI (now SpaceXAI), has joined OpenAI's infrastructure division. He led end-to-end commissioning for the Colossus, Macrohard and Macroharder data centers and is joined by several other ex-SpaceXAI and Meta data center staff.

• Roberson spent a year leading commissioning for xAI's Colossus, Macrohard and Macroharder data centers
• At OpenAI he will take data centers from construction through testing into operations
• Other SpaceXAI hires include site lead Aakash Verma and staffer Amin Golnabi
• Meta's Nikhil Kumar and data center deployment lead Naeem Dogar also joined OpenAI