TL;DR

  • PowerBridge appointed Melissa Podesto as Vice President of Hyperscale Leasing and Data Center Sales to lead customer engagement and sales strategy.
  • Podesto brings more than 20 years of hyperscale and digital infrastructure sales experience, most recently at Aligned Data Centers and previously at Digital Realty.
  • The company is advancing its Alpha Digital Campus in Pecos, West Texas, a planned two-gigawatt project anticipated as part of ERCOT’s Batch 0.
  • PowerBridge says the appointment supports its integrated strategy of converging power, connectivity and digital infrastructure to serve hyperscale and AI customers.

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As hyperscale and AI infrastructure demand continues accelerating, customers are increasingly prioritizing speed to power, long-term scalability and integrated infrastructure execution when evaluating where to deploy capacity.

That market shift is one reason PowerBridge has appointed Melissa Podesto as Vice President of Hyperscale Leasing and Data Center Sales.

Podesto joins PowerBridge at a moment when hyperscale, cloud and AI customers are prioritizing long-term infrastructure readiness and speed to power. In her new role, she will lead customer engagement and sales strategy as the company advances its growing portfolio of powered digital infrastructure campuses across North America.

Her appointment brings more than 20 years of relationship-driven sales leadership to the team. Podesto most recently served as Senior Director of Sales at Aligned Data Centers and previously spent nearly a decade at Digital Realty as Global Sales Director, where she led hyperscale and global account sales for one of the world’s largest data center platforms. Across both companies, she became known for translating complex hyperscaler and digital native infrastructure requirements into long-term partnerships at scale.

The appointment reflects broader changes happening across the digital infrastructure industry, where hyperscale and AI customers are increasingly seeking partners that can deliver power, connectivity and campus-scale infrastructure as part of a unified strategy rather than through fragmented development models.

For PowerBridge Founder and CEO Alex Hernandez, that combination of commercial experience and customer insight aligns directly with where the company is focusing its growth.

“Melissa is a highly respected commercial leader with customer insight, a long-standing track record and market experience that will complement our energy convergence strategy,” said Hernandez, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PowerBridge. “As demand for powered digital infrastructure continues to accelerate, Melissa’s long-standing relationships with hyperscale, cloud and AI customers will accelerate our mission to deliver large-scale powered campuses built for speed, certainty and growth.”

That strategy is anchored in an integrated approach to digital infrastructure and connectivity. PowerBridge was formed by Hernandez and the leadership team behind Cumulus Data, in partnership with FivePoint Infrastructure, which announced a $1 billion equity commitment to the company in May 2025. Today, PowerBridge is advancing several multi-gigawatt developments across West Texas, where abundant energy resources, available power infrastructure and fiber conduit connectivity are positioned to support the next phase of large-scale digital infrastructure growth.

Among those developments is the company’s Alpha Digital Campus in Pecos, West Texas, a two-gigawatt project scheduled to deliver first power in the second half of 2027 and into early 2028 as an anticipated ERCOT Batch Zero power generation and data center project.

For hyperscale and AI customers, projects like Alpha Digital Campus represent a growing shift toward infrastructure environments designed around long-term power availability, execution certainty and scalable campus development.

Podesto said the company’s differentiated platform was central to her decision to join.

“I am thrilled to join PowerBridge at such an important moment for the industry,” Podesto said. “Alex and the team were years ahead of our industry in understanding the rapid convergence between power and digital infrastructure. PowerBridge’s assets in West Texas offer hyperscale and AI customers a differentiated and compelling platform built around fundamentals, execution and scale. I look forward to working with the team to expand customer relationships and support the company’s continued growth.”

As hyperscale and AI deployments continue to accelerate, the industry is increasingly moving toward infrastructure models that prioritize integrated execution, scalability and long-term power availability. PowerBridge’s latest leadership appointment reflects how developers are positioning themselves to meet that next phase of growth.

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