Richard Blake Batson is a Mission Critical MEP Project Manager & Owner’s Representative with 8 years of experience delivering hyperscale data centers and complex commercial projects across Texas, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois, Utah, Kansas, and Wyoming, with combined project value exceeding $20B and 1.6GW+ capacity. His experience includes program-level leadership and oversight on large-scale developments as Owner’s Representative to Crusoe on the Stargate Abilene 1.2GW+ Data Center campus, supporting OpenAI and Oracle as end users, while providing programmatic oversight to prime contractors DPR, Southland Industries, and Rosendin Electric.

He has led hyperscale data center projects across multiple delivery roles, with hands-on expertise in MEP commissioning (L1–L5), QA/QC, and complex stakeholder coordination for clients including AWS, Meta, QTS, and Crusoe. Richard is currently pursuing an MBA at SMU Cox School of Business with a concentration in Strategy.