New Era Energy & Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAI) announced the appointment of two executives to strengthen its leadership team. Evan Pierce has been named Chief Development Officer and Michael Johnson as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, both effective June 1, 2026.

Pierce brings more than 20 years of experience in hyperscale data centers, energy infrastructure and grid strategy across the Americas and EMEA. At New Era, he will lead data center and power development across the company's Texas Critical Data Centers project and broader development platform. Previously, Pierce served as Vice President of Data Center Site Development and Energy Development for the Americas at EdgeConneX, where he worked on multi-gigawatt hyperscale campus initiatives. He also held senior roles at TikTok/ByteDance, Amazon and Amazon Web Services, focusing on energy strategy, utility engagement and power procurement. Throughout his career, Pierce has contributed to the deployment and planning of more than 5 gigawatts of data center and energy infrastructure.

Johnson brings over 30 years of legal and commercial experience in data center development, real estate, construction and finance. As General Counsel, he will lead the company's legal function and support development, transaction and risk management activities. Most recently, Johnson served as Senior Counsel for Real Estate, Construction and Development at CoreWeave, supporting leasing, powered land acquisitions and construction contracting across North America and EMEA. Previously, he was Associate General Counsel for Real Estate, Construction and Finance for Data Center Development at Switch, supporting data center campus acquisitions, development and financing transactions.

"Evan and Michael bring directly relevant experience to New Era at an important stage in our development," said E. Will Gray II, Chief Executive Officer of New Era, according to the company's press release.

New Era Energy & Digital develops large-scale data centers across energy-rich U.S. markets to support AI training and inference workloads. The company's flagship project, Texas Critical Data Centers, is located on a 492-acre site in the Permian Basin with anticipated capacity scaling to 1.4 GW over time.