50 Evoque Data Center Solutions

Founded in 2019

CEO: Spencer Mullee https://www. evoquedcs.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ evoquedatacentersolutions/

Evoque Data Center Solutions delivers powerful solutions for enterprises by offering colocation, connectivity, cloud engineering and buildto-suit data centres for large enterprises and hyperscalers. It is a portfolio company of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a leading global infrastructure asset manager that owns and operates high-quality, long-life assets in the utilities, transport, midstream and data sectors across North and South America, Asia Pacific and Europe.

The company has more than one million square feet of 2N and N+1 mission-critical data centre space, as well as a 100% uptime track record. As a carrier-neutral infrastructure provider, Evoque offers more than 300 individual carrier connections to its data centres.

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49 Tencent Cloud

Founded in 2010

CEO: Dowson Tong https://tencentcloud.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ tencent-cloud/

With more than a billion users, Tencent is a global technology leader and the largest technology company in Asia. Its cloud provider, Tencent Cloud, is a world-leading provider and focuses on helping global enterprises succeed in China.

Its global engagement teams are based worldwide, with decades of experience deeply rooted in delivering optimal digital engagement to its user base. Tencent has also recently launched Large Language Models-as-a-service (MaaS) to better train and assist clients and better address unique challenges faced by enterprises. It is part of a rich digital ecosystem that includes some of China’s top social, messaging, mobile payment, gaming, digital literature, music streaming, and video platforms. Cloud China

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Compass Datacenters

Founded in 2011

CEO: Chris Crosby http://www. compassdatacenters. com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ compass-datacenters/

Compass provides the world’s technology leaders a secure place to plug in, with custom, move-in ready data centres from edge deployments to core facilities serving hyperscale, cloud and enterprise customers.

Since the company was founded in 2011, it has embraced sustainability with efficient use of land, green energy, water free cooling, low waste designs and sustainable building materials. The ethos of its campuses is to empower customers with easily-scalable capacity, high levels of control and ultimate flexibility.

Compass has built and delivered more than US$5bn data centres worldwide, with its design developed to be geographically independent to support the requirements of all its users.

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47 Pulsant

Founded in 1995

CEO: Rob Coupland http://www.

Pulsant is the UK's premier digital edge infrastructure company providing nextgeneration cloud, colocation and connectivity services. With a network of 12 edge data centres, Pulsant brings the advances of edge computing within reach of 95% of the UK population.

With a mission to help businesses prosper, the company aims to deliver transformational highspeed, high-bandwidth and low latency advances of edge computing. Regional enterprises and service providers across the UK use Pulsant’s platform to build, connect and deploy the applications they need to innovate and grow.

Pulsant has plenty of experience working with organisations to achieve their digital ambitions through edge infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments.

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Ark Data Centres

Founded in 2005

CEO: Huw Owen https://arkdatacentres.co.uk https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ ark-continuity/

Ark Data Centres helps to empower businesses designing and operating data centres which lead the market in social responsibility. Its facilities have leveraged 100% renewable energy for the past six years, as well as providing optimum security, high availability and world-class sustainable scalability.

The company provides low-cost, private campus fibre connectivity to some of the world’s leading cloud providers, with its fibre-on-ramps providing direct access to public clouds. Some of its sustainable practices include a reduction in water consumption, harvesting rainwater for its data centre cooling systems, and building with steel as opposed to concrete with the aim of recycling up to 90% of its building fabric in the future.

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45 STACK Infrastructure

Founded in 2013

CEO: Brian Cox http://www.stackinfra.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/stackinfrastructure/

STACK Infrastructure provides digital infrastructure to scale innovative companies worldwide. With a client-first approach, it delivers a comprehensive suite of wholesale build-tosuit, colocation, and powered shell solutions across the United States and Canada.

Its flexible expansion capacity provides the scale and geographic reach that hyperscalers need to support the latest technologies from public cloud to 5G to edge computing and more.

In June 2023, the company won the Virginia Department of Education and Virginia's Community College System State Postsecondary Business and Industry Partnership Award. This recognises the company’s commitment to education within the Northern Virginia community as it helps foster the next generation of data centre talent.

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44 Stream Data Centers

Founded in 1999

CEO: Michael Lahoud http://www. streamdatacenters.com https://www.linkedin. com/ company/ stream-data-centers/

Stream Data Centers has provided premium data centre services since 1999, with 90% of its inventory leased to Fortune 100 customers. Since its inception, the company has acquired, developed and managed data centres, with operations ranging from site selection to construction.

The company also develops colocation capacity and build-to-suit solutions for hyperscale and enterprise users, as well as sourcing and developing low-risk sites for data centre use.

All facilities feature carrier-neutral, low latency connectivity to network and public cloud providers. It holds US$5.8bn in annual transactions and 290+ million square feet of space in active markets.

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Aligned Data Centers

Founded in 2013

CEO: Andrew Schaap https://www. aligneddc.com/

Aligned Data Centers is a leading technology infrastructure company offering innovative, sustainable, and adaptive scale data centres and build-to-scale solutions for global hyperscale and enterprise customers across the Americas. The company's intelligent infrastructure allows densification and vertical growth within the same footprint, enabling customers to scale up without disruption, all while maintaining industryleading Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). By reducing the energy, water and space needed to operate, Aligned Data Centers solutions, combined with patented cooling technology, offer businesses a competitive advantage by improving sustainability, reliability, and their bottom line.

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