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“ The question ultimately is , how do we transport that data ? How do we manufacture that data ? How do we store that data ?”
His company , DigitalBridge , currently manages more than $ 30bn worth of digital infrastructure real estate , including more than 440,000 tower sites , over 38,000 small cell nodes , over 100 data centres and a fiber network of over 130,000 route miles across a portfolio of 22 subsidiary companies under its umbrella . DigitalBridge ’ s portfolio includes Data Bank , EdgePoint Infrastructure , Landmark Dividend , Scala Data Centers , Vantage Data Centres , and more .
There are few people alive today who are driving this much investment into the future of digital infrastructure .
Ganzi has also served as the CEO of Colony Capital , orchestrating the real estate investment trust ’ s multi-billion dollar pivot into the digital infrastructure sector last year . He held up trends like the growth of 5G , edge , and IoT adoption as driving forces behind future demand , explaining in an interview last year that service providers in the future will share more infrastructure than previously , a trend he sees as playing into Colony Capital ’ s new strengths as a tower , fibre , small cell , and data centre services provider as old ways of operating networks and delivering digital services disappear .
Calling traditional network architecture “ old thinking ”, Ganzi stressed that old processes like backhauling networks were outdated . “ The new style of thinking
18 October 2021