CELEBRATING THE INDUSTRY’S BEST

Data Centre Magazine runs through the industry’s leading companies, including the likes of longstanding veterans of the field and up-and-coming fresh blood.

A backbone of our digital world, the data centre industry enables us to be better connected than ever and poses endless possibilities.

Facilities ensure a flow of information and powering the technologies transforming elements of business and everyday lives and propel our interconnected society.

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, few sectors have experienced such an extraordinary transformation as the data centre industry. This compilation displays some of the most remarkable and influential companies at the heart of this development, the drivers behind change.

Our collection of 100 industry playersincluding the likes of AWS, DataBank and Ark Data Centres - stands as a tribute to the achievements of the top data centre companies that continue to shape not just the data centre sector itself but the wider world. Here, we recognise their achievements - and as I’m sure you’ll agree, the best is yet to come. Maya

100 Edge Centres

Founded in 2021

CEO: Jonathan Eaves https://www. edgecentres.com/ https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ edgecentres

Supporting regional markets, Edge Data Centres is an international data centre provider. Its first location, EC1 Grafton, was and remains to be the only 100% off-grid facility in the world.

Operating in APAC, North America and beyond, Edge Centres is building a global platform of highly modular, highly sustainable Edge Pods capable of bringing ultra-low-latency connectivity and compute resources where they're needed most.

CEO and Founder Jonathan Eaves, who has more than three decades of experience as a data centre builder and launched the company in 2021, said: "Edge is bringing applications where they need to be: as close to the end user as possible. Edge Centres is driving the low-latency future of a data driven world."

Data Centres

Australia

99 nLighten

Founded in 2021

CEO: Harro Beusker https://www.nlighten.eu/ https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ nlighten-datacenters/ nLighten data centres have been designed to meet the increasing demand for faster and more reliable data processing storage, while continuing to be mindful of their environmental impact.

Developing innovative edge data centres, nLighten is a digital infrastructure platform operating in key economic hubs around Europe. The company provides best-in-class network access to regional, national, and global enterprises; private users; and the mobile workforce.

By strategically distributing its edge data centres, nLighten is working towards having a panEuropean presence in all major cities to provide low latency and proximity to end users.

IT Services and IT Consulting

South Africa