Jon Eaves , Founder and CEO of Edge Centres , talks funding rounds , a pan- APAC rollout , and writing the unwritten future of ‘ Edge ’
EDGE CENTRES
Jon Eaves , Founder and CEO of Edge Centres , talks funding rounds , a pan- APAC rollout , and writing the unwritten future of ‘ Edge ’
The edge , it would seem , is full of surprises . “ I ' m always blown away by how much things have changed and how fast they move ,” reflects Jonathan Eaves , Founder and CEO of off-grid edge data centre company Edge Centres .
For a company that ’ s fresh off the back of a AU $ 12mn funding round , and on track to grow from a single test site in the small Australian town of Grafton – which came online in early 2021 – to 20 data centres spread across seven APAC markets in under two years , “ fast ” feels like an understatement .
It ’ s all the more impressive when you hear Jon talk about just how much his understanding of – not to mention vision for – “ the edge ” has changed in that time .
A Year at the Cutting Edge “ What Edge Centres looks like today is so completely different to what it was when I founded the company ,” he explains . Over the last year , Eaves has “ radically reevaluated ” his understanding of what ' edge ' means . He ’ s pivoted the business in response , from focusing on his home market of Australia , towards “ a broader , globalised footprint , rather than a more concentrated , localised edge network .”
Of course , if you talk to Jon for any amount of time about his plans for the business , you quickly realise that when
40 August 2022