BlockchAIn Taps Ex-Vantage/HP Leader to Speed 9–12-Month AI Data Center Builds
AIB•BlockchAIn appointed Nicholas Ukachi as Project Manager, leveraging his 16-year record delivering 280MW to 788MW hyperscale and enterprise data center projects. Ukachi will support Amazon veteran Christopher Iannacone to deliver AI data centers within a 9-12-month timeline, targeting a valuation boost from approximately $2M per operating megawatt.
1. New Project Manager Appointment
Effective June 1, BlockchAIn named Nicholas Ukachi as Project Manager, drawing on his 16 years of data center project management at Vantage Data Centers and HP, where he delivered greenfield, brownfield and white-space programs totaling 280MW, 330MW and 788MW of capacity.
2. Experienced Leadership Team
Ukachi will join Christopher Iannacone’s construction execution team; Iannacone brings over 25 years of mission-critical engineering experience, including oversight of three gigawatts of completed capacity and $500 million in AWS capital deployment across North America.
3. Timeline and Valuation Strategy
The company targets a 9-12-month AI data center conversion timeline to move from power infrastructure to operating capacity, aiming to drive market re-rating from its current approximately $2 million per operating megawatt valuation.
