(Reuters) – Oil main BP (NYSE:)’s former CEO Bernard Looney is about to chair Prometheus Hyperscale, the U.S.-based information firm mentioned on Sunday.
Looney, who resigned in 2023 after 4 years within the British power large’s high job for failing to totally disclose particulars of previous private relationships with colleagues, will present strategic steering on the event of the data-driven firm’s development plans, Prometheus Hyperscale mentioned in an announcement.
In his new function, Looney will even help with duties together with work on the corporate’s flagship $10 billion information heart in Evanston, Wyoming, Prometheus Hyperscale mentioned.
“I’m wishing BP well, and of course for me I’m thinking about the next 32 years of my career, and I can’t think of anything more exciting, more challenging to do than get stuck into this space,” Looney was quoted as telling the Monetary Occasions in an interview revealed on Sunday.
In Could, Prometheus Hyperscale, an organization centered on information heart infrastructure, signed a partnership settlement with Oklo, a nuclear power firm backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.