Adam Levine , Chief Commercial Officer , reveals how Data4 has transformed the French data centre sector from outlier to key player in the European market
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Adam Levine , Chief Commercial Officer , reveals how Data4 has transformed the French data centre sector from outlier to key player in the European market
With 137 hectares and 340MW of resources , Data4 has a volume of land reserves and power capacity that is unique in the European market .
From small scale origins in a slightly under-performing region of the sector , in 2014 , Data4 rapidly aligned itself with the newly-emerging global data centre trends . It developed a strategy around three pillars of growth : Scalability , Quality and Sustainability . Alongside this , its strategy of acquiring large , scalable campuses placed it in prime position to ride the wave of the rapidly growing European data centre market .
We spoke to Adam Levine , the Chief Commercial Officer at Data4 , about the factors that drove Data4 ’ s successes , its ongoing European expansion , the company ’ s future plans , and how this strategy is being shaped by sustainability .
Utilising a sleeping giant of the Tier 1 data centre markets as a springboard to becoming France ’ s largest data centre provider Data4 owns , operates and invests in largescale data centres across Europe . But , despite now having claims in major European markets , it all started out in one of the sector ’ s more forgotten regions .
According to Levine , in the early days of Data4 , France
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