envelope in terms of doing things that other organisations haven ’ t done yet , if we think it ’ s the right thing to do in order to be sustainable .”

IMDC ’ s approach when it comes to sustainability is to lead rather than follow ; the company is keen on trying new solutions that will increase its sustainability efforts . “ Sustainability is at the forefront of everything that we do , and our customers are aware of that . We look at designing the most efficient data centers that minimise the consumption of electrical energy ,” says Boonstra .

One example that highlights these sustainability ambitions is the fact that IMDC helps its customers to look at the hardware they put into an Iron Mountain data center to drive

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Title : Vice President , Global Head of Design and Construction Company : Iron Mountain Data Centers Industry : Data Center & Colocation services

Alex Sharp joined Iron Mountain Data Centers in 2019 as Global Head of Design & Construction . Prior to joining Iron Mountain Alex was Global Head of Projects and Construction for CBRE DataCenter Solutions as he joined CBRE from Mace Limited where for 8 years he was Senior Managing Director of their data center construction business . Alex is an Electrical & Electronic Engineer and one of Europe ’ s leading data center builders with the ambition to further develop and grow Iron Mountains Data Centers business by building sustainable data center facilities . Alex is a regular speaker at prominent industry conferences such as Datacenterdynamics and DataCloud Global in various places around the world . datacentremagazine . com