LAYER 9 DATA CENTRES

ALEJANDRO

CANTU SEPULVEDA CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER AND CO-FOUNDER , LAYER 9

level perspective of what was happening within that market . And there were certainly data centre projects happening , but the scale of those projects was very , very small – varying from five to ten megawatt sites – and understanding why that was happening was a big challenge for Michael and I .”

“ We saw the opportunity to solve that hyper-scaled infrastructure dilemma within Mexico , and to cater to cloud service providers who innately prefer to not always own the brick and mortar . But data centre companies in Mexico and Latin America who catered to retail clients didn ' t understand the hyperscale world . So , in their business plans , you saw growth of , again , three megawatts , four megawatt data centres ,” Sepulveda explained . So , in contrast to the other operators in this market , Layer 9 enables hyperscalers to continue their growth into Mexico and LATAM while maintaining the type of footprint and delivery that they ' ve been accustomed to elsewhere in the world .

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