Childs brings extensive experience leading mission-critical infrastructure businesses, most recently serving as CEO of Pure Data Centres Group. Harris joins with more than 15 years scaling private equity-backed digital infrastructure platforms, latterly as CFO at Kao Data.
The appointments come as demand for distributed, low-latency infrastructure accelerates across Europe, driven by AI adoption, rising data volumes, and growing enterprise focus on digital sovereignty.
As traditional data centre hubs face increasing power and capacity constraints, operators with edge footprints are attracting greater attention from hyperscalers and AI-driven organisations seeking infrastructure that keeps workloads closer to users and within local jurisdictions.
nLighten operates more than 30 data centres across seven European countries, providing carrier-neutral edge infrastructure designed for low latency, resilience, and local data control.
The duo will lead the company’s expansion into key European markets, investment in sustainable data centre solutions, and efforts to support customers as AI workloads increasingly migrate toward the edge.
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