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INTERXION
LEX COORS TITLE : CHIEF DATA CENTRE TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING OFFICER
LOCATION : NETHERLANDS
Over the past 25 years of his career , he has built exceptionally strong credentials in the design of versatile , cost-effective and energy-efficient data centre infrastructure .
During his time with Interxion he has pioneered several new approaches to data centre design and management , including the improvement of power ratio efficiency between server load and transformer load , and the industry ’ s first ever modular approach to data centre architecture .
Lex received already two times the Personal Judges Award for Outstanding Contribution to the

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Datasector over the last 10 years by Broadgroup ( 2010 ), and again by DCD ( 2016 ) .
Since 2019 , Lex is working with the University of East London to investigate the issues around sustainability for Datacentres and was recently appointed as Visiting Professor .
At the EUDCA Lex is the Chair for the EUDCA Policy Committee where he represents the interest of the European Commercial Data Centre Operator Community both politically and commercially . Further Lex is Board Member of the European Climate neutral datacentre pact . Lex is member of the iMasons Advisory Council . He studied Mechanical Engineering and Management and Economics in Rotterdam , The Netherlands .
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