Riot Platforms (Riot) has hired the veteran of the Jonathan Gibbs industry as its data center director, who marked a strategic movement of the Bitcoin miner to branch beyond cryptography in the broader data infrastructure business.
Gibbs brings more than 15 years of experience and a curriculum that includes designing and building more than one gigawatio of data center capacity in North America, Europe and Asia. He recently served as Executive Vice President in Prime Data Centers, where he led projects throughout the United States.
Now, he has the task of launching the new Riot data centers platform aimed at companies that require mass computer power to admit cloud services and artificial intelligence. The company plans to build facilities not focused on bitcoin, taking advantage of 1.7 Gigawatts of power capacity that already controls.
The company’s CEO, Jason them, said the new initiative will “be aggressively scaled” to meet the growing demand. If you succeed, Riot could join a growing list of old mining companies that are repositioned as key players in the AI and the cloud infrastructure.
