T5 Data Center - December 2020

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T5 Data Centers

DIGITAL REPORT 2020

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THE COMPLETE DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS COMPANY

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Meet a company at the cutting edge of customized turnkey development, facility management and mission critical services; keeping your business ‘on’ forever

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ow in its 13th year, T5 evolved out of the services sector representing data center users. Back in 2008 T5 started

out as a development company before growing a full lifecycle of services geared towards hyperscale and enterprise customers. These extend 04

across the lifecycle of the core data center ranging from customised turnkey development and facility management to data hall operations, mission critical construction services and sustainable approaches to power genera-tion. T5 is serving the needs of the hyperscale and enterprise data center user across North America and at strategic international locations.

“Our roots in the development of cutting-edge data centers for leading corporations gave us a platform to evolve,” remembers President & CEO Pete Marin. “Those same customers looked to us to operate those DCs. There have been numerous changes inside these structures that required construction activity which drove us to create T5CS (T5 Construction Services). Everything we do revolves around that discerning data center customer in

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“ We advise our customers on lowering the cost of their operations going forward by evaluating power and cooling systems and helping them design and procure the best system that’s going to use the least amount of energy throughout a data hall’s lifecycle” — Pete Marin, President & CEO, T5

two different sectors of the business cycle - hyperscale and enterprise. We’ll continue to grow with those strategic customers and the markets they want to be in, and we will continue to add the services they need as we evolve our assets to support them.”

A DATA CENTER LIFECYCLE PARTNER Marin highlights that T5 is the only company across the sector offering a full lifecycle combination of assets and services in strategic markets.

From delivering a fully functioning data center building at a competitive cost to producing the lowest possible cost of occupancy and then going on to operate it for the customer, T5 can utilize a build to suit approach delivering tailor made specs - for everything from power to cooling - inside the data hall.

Evolving assets through the data center lifecycle is a big part of the philosophy that drives T5 explains Marin: “We advise our customers on lowering the cost of their operations going forward by evaluating power and cooling systems and helping them design and procure the best system that’s going to use the least amount of

energy throughout a data hall’s lifecy-

these developments are all inter-

cle. With that comes a big focus on the

twined. “We’re making sure we have

reduction of carbon footprint. We’re

the right cooling methodologies to

very supportive of that and have devel-

meet future needs. Simple things like

oped the capabilities to construct

having water at the rack for our cool-

solar installations and we’ll continue to

ing systems which allows a deeper life

expand that expertise as the technol-

cycle for that asset. And of course,

ogy evolves for the hyperscalers.”

we’re agnostic to networks, but we’re

Marin notes that, as electrical densities across data centers increase,

very supportive of having a robust network in all of our buildings.”

E X E C U T I V E P R O FILE :

Pete Marin

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Title: President & CEO

Company: T5 Data Centers

Industry: IT

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

As President and Chief Executive Officer of T5 Data Centers, Pete is responsible for setting the overall strategy of the firm, maintaining client relationships, capital management, and creating and executing the firm’s vision for growth. Pete has more than 20 years of experience in the data center sector ranging from development, securing debt and equity capital, to tenant representation including site selection and incentives.

Pete’s understanding of end-user needs has enabled T5 Data Centers to reduce project cycle-time and cost, which leads to successful relationships, and repeat business.

Pete received a B.S. in Finance from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.

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T5 FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

• 400+ FM FTEs

T5’s commitment to greener ways to power data centers has seen it extend

• 500 MW IT load currently managed in over 55 data centers

its construction services to include

• 100% data center focused

into the delivery of solar projects a

• Battle-tested leadership experience

few years ago, and we’ve had a lot of

• Award-winning operations platform

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A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

• Multiple recipient of uptime institute’s continuous availability award and M&O certification • Commitment to military veterans and diversity

solar and renewable energy. “We got

repeat business,” reveals Marin. “The technology continues to improve and evolve, and it really comes down to the battery technology which I think will bring us to a point where we will see a huge reduction in traditional power sources. It’s going to be interesting to see how this develops because you’ve got some competing forces…

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“ We have the ability to give visibility to as many touch points as a customer wants all the way down to the circuit level, so they have that vital input into how their building is operated” — Pete Marin, President & CEO, T5

You want to reduce carbon footprint and carbon emissions because this industry has a lot of generators that are fired with diesel fuel. We need to address that. The evolution of solar represents a great opportunity to do that so we will continue to develop a skill set to deliver these solar projects.

Already, a lot of the big hyperscale customers will typically build a solar deployment to offset what they’re taking from the grid. Eventually, I think you could see solar deployments that are directly set into the grid, so we’re moving in the right direction.” www.t 5 da t a c e nt er s . com

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“ We’ll see continued investment as 5G implementation ramps and the move to the Edge continues” — Pete Marin, President & CEO, T5

“Being able to go from bricks and mortar all the way through to the white space and be able to operate inside the data hall is unique in our business. We ensure we have the right EPMS and BMS systems to run the facility with a proper model that works all the controls throughout the data hall,” assures Marin. “We have the ability to give visibility to as many

THE T5 DIFFERENCE

touch points as a customer wants all

It’s one thing to build a great build-

the way down to the circuit level so

ing and deliver it, but another beast

they have that vital input into how their

entirely to operate it believes Marin.

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CRISIS MANAGEMENT TEAM

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“COVID-19 is a challenge for all of us but we got up to speed as quickly as we could,” says T5’s President & CEO Pete Marin. “Right out of the gate, we were ahead of it with extra safety protocols instituted across our sites. We were one of the early adopters of testing and, with the use of smartphone cameras that read a barcode, our staff must complete a questionnaire each day before they are cleared to enter a site. Communication is key - that simple approach, along with best practice when it comes to PPE and social distancing, has limited the spread of COVID-19 at our sites. I’m very proud of how we’re tackling this but we’re not out of the woods yet. Our view is that we’re going to be managing and living with COVID-19 for the next year or two, so we need to make sure we take care of our people first. People first and then we’ll grow the business

and keep moving forward.”

Mission critical facilities rely on highly specific processes to ensure seamless IT deployment and migration, low redundancy and secure connectivity - much of which is handled by on-site IT or remote hands staff. An industry leader in critical facility management, T5 formed a cross-functional Crisis Management Team to further support its customers with expanded emergency action and business continuity plans to make sure “the lights never go out” as they navigate a global pandemic. By keeping many of its staff on the ground and avoiding the implications of an IT-less facility T5 has been able to continue performing preventative maintenance and server updates to mitigate the risk of downtime and outages while guaranteeing uptime and continuous availability.

The open book approach Marin

at how to improve the data center and

describes gives T5 the flexibility to

to solve the problems of hyperscale

build to suit offering a best in class

and enterprise users.”

service. “We work with the brightest

Marin maintains that recruiting the

and the best partners out there, from

right people, often with mission critical

design and construction through to

backgrounds in the military, and training

services inside the data hall. If there

them to the highest level is paramount.

are services our customers want and

“It’s a big part of making sure the lights

we’re not delivering those today, we

never go out,” he says. Training is the

will go out and find the best to do that

front-line philosophy, to keep our people

and develop that capability internally,

at the cutting edge and allow the group

or acquire it. We’re constantly looking

and its work culture to grow.”

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THE EDGE Evaluating the industry today, Marin believes that on the asset front it’s still important to have space that’s ready to occupy and in key strategic markets. “Over the past couple of years, it’s been just a few buyers of data center space picking up the majority of it. That’s the hyperscale phenomena. That’s going to continue.

However, we predicted last year that enterprise business would come back and we’re seeing that with a combi14

nation of both cloud operations and data centers all supporting the hybrid platform. There’s going to be a combination strategy there. We’re seeing the enterprise return with more build to suit, as well as just leasing traditional data center sites.”

A key development for the future of connectivity is the impending 5G roll out. Marin is excited to see what this will mean for The Edge. “Thanks to 5G

data centers that can be deployed

we’re going to see more Edge deploy-

quickly in multiple locations bringing

ments,” he says. “There have been

compute and storage as close to the

a number of new companies estab-

users eyeballs as possible. We’ll see

lished that are looking at data centers

continued investment here as 5G

from a different perspective, not as

implementation ramps and the move

big, scalable operations but micro

to the Edge continues.”

2008

Year founded

400+ Number of employees

SCALING UP

to continue to scale the breadth of our

Last year, in partnership with QuadReal,

operations,” confirms Marin. “We have

T5 launched a $2.5bn fund to develop,

significant equity to build our asset

acquire and operate data centers

deployment while remaining nimble as

which has proved to be very success-

a private company.”

ful, allowing the company to scale on

T5 recently acquired an asset in

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“ Continuing to grow our third-party services will be at the heart of our strategy to remain the industry’s premier data center lifecycle partner” — Pete Marin, President & CEO, T5

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out on a turnkey basis. Located in the

Oregon, just outside of Portland with a

Elk Grove Village Technology Park,

maximum capacity of 17.6 MW,” adds

T5@Chicago will provide 103,000

Marin. “We’ve also acquired an exist-

square feet of white space and up

ing turnkey data center in Northern

to 27.6 critical megawatts of power

California in Silicon Valley where we’ll

capacity, purposefully designed to

be able to deliver in excess of 17 MW.

serve enterprise and hyperscale cloud

Elsewhere, we’ve acquired a large

computing customers. “We’re con-

tract of land (80 acres) in Atlanta,

structing a new building in Hillsboro,

where we’ve started what we call the

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‘horizontal construction’ of a facility

their facilities, so continuing to grow

with a total design capacity of 217 MW.”

our third-party services will be at the

“This is just a taste of what we’re up

heart of our strategy to remain the

to at T5 with many exciting develop-

industry’s premier data center lifecy-

ments in the pipeline. So far, we’ve

cle partner.”

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