Luke Mackinnon
Senior executive at NextDC serving as Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Asia, responsible for the company's data centre expansion in Asia and expertise on tier‑4 infrastructure, power constraints, and AI-focused high-density facilities.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 28min
Weekend Edition: NextDC – shovels for the AI gold-rush
Luke Mackinnon, Senior VP and MD for Asia at NextDC, leads the company’s push building Tier 4, AI‑ready data centres across Asia. He discusses high‑density AI “factories” like KL1 and TK1. Power scarcity, gigawatt campus planning, rapid staged rollouts, co‑location validation with partners, and why specialised infrastructure is essential for sovereign and hyperscale AI needs.
