Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has expanded its investment team with the appointment of John Lucas as senior director-data strategies.
Lucas joins Quinbrook from Amazon Web Services, where he recently was head of renewables and energy procurement and oversaw AWS’s renewable power procurement efforts across the Americas. In 2021 alone, Lucas managed the AWS team that committed to more than 6.2 gigawatts of new renewables power-purchase agreements — more than any other global corporation.
Before AWS, he held energy procurement roles at Facebook and traded energy and power at Morgan Stanley, Puget Sound Energy and Shell.
In his new role at Quinbrook, Lucas will help lead the firm’s green data center solutions with a primary focus on the previously announced Rowan venture in the United States and Quinbrook’s mega-scale green data center campus now in advanced development in Australia.
“John has extensive experience and is an industry leader in pr