90 Digital Fortress

Founded in 2012

CEO: Robert Bugtel https://digital-fortress.com/ https://www.linkedin. com/ company/dfcolo/

Digital Fortress is a fast-growing multi-tenant and wholesale data centre provider offering colocation, network, and cloud access services to large and mid-size enterprises. Since 2003, the company has expanded its national footprint through both organic and inorganic strategies, now operating nine SSAE SOC 1 and II, PCI, and HIPPA compliant facilities in Chicago, Denver, Lynnwood, Piscataway, Portland, and Seattle.

In 2021, the company acquired a wholesale data centre in Richmond, VA offering N+1 concurrently maintainable configurations with up to 25MW of expansion capabilities. Additionally, all of Digital Fortress’s facilities are carrier-neutral with 24/7 on-site support. Digital Fortress is based in Seattle, Washington.

IT Services and IT Consulting

United States

89 Maincubes

Founded in 2012

CEO: Oliver Menzel

Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, maincubes designs, builds and operates a network of very efficient data centres of various sizes and specifications in Europe. maincubes provides various market segments with carrier-neutral, highly secure and sustainable capacity to house their IT infrastructure.

Its German-engineered retail and wholesale facilities in Amsterdam and Frankfurt feature highly flexible and cost-effective data centre services to colocate IT infrastructure. maincubes ’German engineering approach and keen eye for data centre technology details cater to the mission-critical IT-infrastructure availability needs of governments, SMEs and enterprises alike. maincubes’ unique go-to-market approach also attracts colocation customers.

IT Services and IT Consulting Germany

88 Chayora

Founded in 2011

CEO: James Wei https://www. chayora.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ chayora/

Chayora is a world-class infrastructure developer based in Hong Kong with a primary focus on building data centre platforms in China. Chayora enables international online companies to effectively access the vast and rapidly developing Chinese market. It provides the fastest, most reliable and most assured route to business engagement in China.

Chayora is also developing a series of hyperscale, fully-licensed data centre campuses in key locations across China: initially in Tianjin to serve the greater Beijing and northern provinces; and in Shanghai to serve the eastern provinces.

Chayora’s vision is to be the trusted digital infrastructure partner, delivering large, scalable high-performance data centre campuses in China supporting efficient, high-value access to the Chinese digital economy.

IT Services and IT Consulting

Hong Kong

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Proximity Data Centres

Founded in 2020

CEO: John Hall http://proximitydatacentres.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ proximity-data-centres/

Proximity Data Centres Limited is the UK’s fastest growing regional edge colocation provider. Through a network of 20 internet edge data centres Proximity offers high-quality low latency colocation services throughout the UK.

Its data centres are able to offer between 2MW and 5MW of IT load to address the needs of businesses requiring data distributed throughout the UK, in close proximity to the user. Proximity’s facilities are ideally located.

Additionally, Proximity takes sustainability very seriously and is constantly innovating to reduce its environmental impact. Its grid electricity is sourced from 100% renewable providers and each data centre site develops renewable energy solutions, including battery storage, solar and wind power.

Information Technology and Services

United Kingdom