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KKR

Data Centre Leaders: Joseph Bae & Scott Nuttall Industry: Real Estate / Investment

KKR has become a significant source of data centre capital, acquiring CyrusOne alongside Global Infrastructure Partners in a US $ 15bn deal and backing ST Telemedia Global Data Centres and Gulf Data Hub. Its US $ 50bn partnership with Energy Capital Partners targets data centre and power infrastructure investment worldwide.

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Arista Networks

Data Centre Leader: Jayshree Ullal Industry: Infrastructure / Connectivity

Arista Networks supplies the highspeed Ethernet switching that underpins hyperscale and AI data centre networks. Its EOS software and 800G platforms carry east-west traffic across leaf-spine fabrics for cloud providers including Microsoft and Meta. The company’ s work scaling Ethernet for large GPU clusters places its equipment at the centre of AI infrastructure build-outs.

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