JONATHAN EAVES
TITLE : FOUNDER & CEO INDUSTRY : TECHNOLOGY LOCATION : AUSTRALIA
Jonathan Eaves is a veteran data centre builder and tireless evangelist for the future of the edge . He founded Edge Centres – the world ’ s first off-grid data centre company – in 2021 , and is on track to launch 20 sites across Australia and Asia by 2023 . Edge Centres ’ prototype site in Grafton is designed so efficiently as to have zero dependence on the local power grid , meeting all its power needs exclusively with onsite solar and creating more energy than it consumes . As a result , EC1 Grafton was named the winning Edge Data Centre Project of the year 2021 by Data Center Dynamics .
Across APAC In Asia , Eaves is building or buying another 10 sites spread throughout Malaysia , Indonesia , Vietnam , Japan , Hong Kong , and Thailand . The first , EC31 , is under construction in Kuala Lumpur , replicating Edge Centres ’ awardwinning , cutting-edge specifications for small , modular , edge data centre units .
The next site has been selected to the south in Johor , which Eaves explains is “ an amazing location because it ' s just across the bridge from Singapore . That means that you can have a site in Johor and , in terms of connection latency for a hyperscaler ,
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