Nscale named Sam Huckaby president of data centers as the company expands AI infrastructure projects across Europe and North America. Huckaby will oversee global data center build, operations and capital deployment, with responsibility for reliability, sustainability, energy efficiency and performance requirements for AI workloads.
Huckaby joins Nscale from Oracle, where he served as senior vice president of OCI Data Center Infrastructure. In this role, he managed global data center build, operations and deployment across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Before Oracle, Huckaby held senior leadership roles at Vantage Data Centers. His roles included chief operating officer for North America, vice president of construction and chief development officer for EMEA. Across his career, he has worked on hyperscale data center campuses for cloud and enterprise clients.
Source: Nscale
About Nscale
Nscale Ltd., founded in 2024, is a UK-based technology company specializing in AI-optimized cloud infrastructure and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. Headquartered in London, with data centers in Glomfjord, Norway, Nscale offers a vertically integrated platform encompassing public and private cloud services, serverless inference, GPU clusters, and AI development tools. Its infrastructure is powered by renewable energy, emphasizing sustainability. Nscale serves various industries, including education, finance, government, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, software, and telecommunications, providing scalable solutions for AI model training, inference, and development. In January 2025, the company secured $155 million in Series A funding led by Sandton Capital Partners, supporting its expansion across Europe and North America.