86 IXAfrica

Founded in 2021

CEO: Guy Willner http://www.ixafrica.co.ke/ https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ixafrica-datacenter/

IXAfrica in Nairobi, Kenya, is proud to be the largest and most technologically advanced digital habitat for cloud, colocation, and connectivity in East Africa. The company aims to become an unparalleled carrier neutral data centre operator, comparable to the quality of data centres in America and Western Europe.

IXAfrica’s Nairobi Campus is the new home for cloud, colocation and connectivity in East Africa and was designed to assemble hypercloud and internet customers on East Africa’s largest data hub campus. The company will offer pure-play colocation designed to meet the standards of hypercloud, hyperscale customers of financial institutions, multinational corporations, international carriers, and major content operators.

IT Services and IT Consulting

Africa

85 Nautilus Data Technologies

Founded in 2013

CEO: Robert Pfleging http://www.nautilusdt. com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ nautilusdatatechnologies/

Nautilus Data Technologies is leading the change in sustainable data centre innovation, with watercooled data centre solutions that provide the fastest speed to market while reducing the impact on nature. Nautilus data centres are designed, built, and operated for sustainability and efficiency, offering unrivaled performance outcomes for the customers they serve.

Nautilus has the technology and proven process to launch facilities in less time, consuming less footprint, and with fewer materials across every dimension while increasing your usable capacity and exceeding sustainability goals. The company is headquartered in San Ramon, CA, and operates globally with a growing network of international suppliers and developers.

Data Centre Infrastructure

United States

84

Verne Global

Founded in 2007

CEO: Dominic Ward http://www. verneglobal.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ verne-global/

Sustainability and efficiency have been at the heart of Verne Global since the company first opened its doors in 2012. Today, Verne Global delivers sustainable data centre solutions, helping organisations costeffectively scale their digital infrastructure while reducing their environmental impact.

Verne Global’s flagship campus in Iceland is the perfect example of how data centre providers can harness the supernatural powers of hydroelectric and geothermal energy. Now, with more climateneutral campuses in Finland and London, the company is bringing category-defining capability that takes zero toll on the planet.

Verne Global’s data centre campuses can provide everything from high intensity and high connectivity compute, to cloud and hybrid colocation services.

IT Services and IT Consulting

United Kingdom

83

Element Critical

Founded in 2013

CEO: Ken Parent https://elementcritical.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/elementcritical/

Element Critical owns and operates data centres in Northern Virginia, Silicon Valley, Chicago, Houston, and Austin. The company’s Tier III, hybrid IT-ready facilities are network-rich and concurrently maintainable, with Element Critical’s retail, wholesale, and hyperscale colocation services built with large and mid-market enterprises in mind, offering vital interconnection and proximity advantages to tenants and their customers.

Its local teams offer robust colocation with highly customisable deployment space in a variety of deployment sizes and densities. The company offers a data centre experience that brings solutions engineering and customer service out of the shadows and into the spotlight.

Information Technology & Services

United States

82

Serverfarm

Founded in 2009

CEO: Avner Papouchado http://www. serverfarmllc.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ serverfarm/

Serverfarm provides modern colocation options and Data Centre Management as a Service (DMaaS) using its cloud based InCommand Services. With its expert team, proven platform, and purpose-built facilities worldwide, Serverfarm maximises data centre and IT infrastructure efficiencies for businesses of all sizes globally. Serverfarm leads the industry with a modernisation approach that reduces global carbon emissions and an IT management platform that gives customers full visibility into how their data centre infrastructure is performing.

Serverfarm’s core values of sustainability, innovation, and customer service drive the company to be the trusted partner to help businesses improve IT infrastructure, reduce costs, and increase agility in the digital age.

Data Centre & IT Management

United States

81

EdgeCore

Founded in 2018

CEO: Lee Kestler https://www. edgecore.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ edgecore-digital-infrastructure/

EdgeCore develops data centres for the world’s largest cloud, internet, and technology companies. Privately held, with committed institutional equity to fund large-scale client requirements up to an aggregate of US$4bn, EdgeCore also provides bespoke capital-structure solutions leveraging the lowest available cost of capital.

In support of the company’s clients’ speed-tomarket requirements, EdgeCore has proactively invested in four power and shovel-ready campuses in North America and has the ability to expand investment across both North America and European markets. With existing land and data centre capacity of more than 500 IT MW, EdgeCore acts as an extension of customer supply chains by enabling them to grow quickly and innovate.

Data Centres

United States

80 Kingsoft Cloud

Founded in 2012

CEO: Tao Zou https://www. ksyun.com/ https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ kingsoft-cloud/

Kingsoft Cloud, a unit of Kingsoft Group, is one of the world’s leading cloud computing service providers and among China’s Top three cloud computing companies. Founded in 2012, the company has data centres and branch offices around the globe, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and North America.

Kingsoft Cloud has a complete product portfolio covering cloud servers, cloud physical hosts, relational databases, cache, object storage, VPN, CDN, cloud security and cloud DNS, as well as cloud-based solutions for vertical industries.

With a strong commitment to artificial intelligence research and applications, Kingsoft Cloud has launched Kingsoft AI Propeller that supports IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and industry solutions.

79 DartPoints

Founded in 2012

CEO: Scott Willis http://www.

Since 2012, DartPoints has envisioned a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to connect, communicate, and experience the brilliance that surrounds us. Empowered by possibility, the company led the edge data centre revolution, recognising and meeting the need for cost-efficient and performance-driven interconnection.

The explosive demand for data has created nationwide data delivery challenges, exposing the massive need for reliable connectivity. DartPoints’ carrier-neutral data centres solve these challenges in real time by enabling data storage, processing and execution at the edge. DartPoints also provides the physical infrastructure where internet service providers, hosting companies, and hyperscale cloud providers connect locally.

Telecommunications

United States