HYDRO66
diesel generators , and lead acid batteries because you have multiple connections to different regional grids and substations . This grid resilience helps our design to be very efficient from an architecture and capex perspective , and we then pass those savings onto our customers .”
The company has a team of nine staff who all occupy management positions and work in partnership with local companies to run the data center with a staff of around 25 required to keep it working 24 / 7 . Despite only opening at the start of last year , the success of Hydro66 ’ s model has already been recognized by the industry , with the company beating the likes of Volta , Interxion and CenturyLink to the 2016 DCS Hosting / Colocation Supplier of the Year award .
What has surprised the team though , is just how quickly the company has been able to sell the space , with two-thirds of the existing capacity already taken up . Importantly though , the current site has room to expand to seven times its current size , and phase two of the
Anne Graf CEO
Anne was born in the early part of the 1980s and has been fascinated with technology since getting her first computer when she was 10 . After studying Marketing , EU
Affairs , English and German at the International Business School , she spent the first seven years of her working life in London
Her journey with Hydro66 started in 2014 when they came to the region to do site selection and during the investment and construction phase .
At that time , Anne was working for inward investment agency The Node Pole after deciding to make the move back to the region where she grew up . Anne passionately believes that the region ’ s robust power infrastructure can help companies to cope with the power and energy requirements of the age .
That desire made the opportunity of joining Hydro66 too good to pass up .
She was first employed as CCO in October last year , before taking over as CEO in February . Anne says she ’ s
“ very excited ” by the challenge of cleaning the Internet ’ s infrastructure .
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