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“ It ’ s no surprise that virtually every major data centre operator has a presence in [ Northern Virginia ]”
PETE JONES CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER AND FOUNDER , YONDR GROUP point in the history of the data centre sector , many companies are looking to expand overseas .
Headquartered in the Netherlands , where a hyper-saturated data centre industry is still recovering from the 2019 data centre construction Moratorium , Yondr Group is pressing ahead with a pan-US expansion of unprecedented scale - which kicked off earlier this year with the announcement of a 500 MW development in Northern Virginia , already the world ’ s most heavily-developed data centre market .
At the same time , Texan data centre giant CyrusOne is heading in the opposite direction . Already well-established in the US and Europe ’ s five key markets ( Frankfurt , London , Amsterdam , Paris , and Dublin – also known as the FLAP-D markets ), CyrusOne is continuing to expand overseas , this time into less competitive secondary markets with massive potential for growth . We caught up with Pete Jones , Chief Development Officer and Founder at Yondr Group , and Matt Pullen , EVP and Managing Director of CyrusOne ’ s European operations , to find out more about the trends pushing driving these two massive data centre footprint expansions in what initially appears to be opposite directions . datacentremagazine . com 43