We are thrilled to announce that Lex Coors, Chief Data Center Technology and Engineering Officer from Digital Realty will be joining Touchdown Middle East 2024 as a speaker! Lex will feature on our panel ‘Looking Out: A perspective from international owners and operators’ taking place on Day 2 of the conference, 27th November at 12:25.
The panel will provide an outlook on the GCC data centre market today from an international players perspective; looking at their ambitions in the region, reasons for entering the market, and what challenges and opportunities outside players face when entering the GCC market.
Over the past 30 years of his career, Lex has built exceptionally strong credentials in the design of versatile, cost-effective and energy-efficient data center infrastructure. He has supervised the design and build process for more than 70 data centers and developed close to 600,000 m² of gross space with over 300,000 m² net space across Western Europe and Africa.
In his current role as Chief Datacenter Technology and Engineering Officer at Digital Realty, Lex has pioneered several new approaches to data center design and management, including the improvement of power ratio efficiency between server load and transformer load, and the industry’s first ever modular approach to data center architecture.
Lex is a Visiting Professor at the University of East London working on the data center challenges of Sustainability and Energy efficiency. Further, Lex is Board member of the Climate neutral datacenter Pact, Chair of the EUDCA Policy Committee where he engages with EU Policymakers, president and board member of the EUDCA, Stakeholder at the EU JRC since the start in for the European Code of Conduct for datacenter efficiency and he is member of the iMasons Advisory Council and Governing Body, where he helped develop the Climate Accord/ Carbon Tracker with Maturity model. In May 2024, Lex joined the European Commission Industrial SMR Alliance, representing the European Datacenter Association.
Lex received the Personal Judges Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Data Center industry in 2010 by Broadgroup, 2016 by DCD, and again 2021 by Data Centre Dynamics. Most recently in 2022, he received the Technology Champion Award during the iMasons Awards Ceremony for his outstanding contribution to technology in the digital infrastructure industry.
Need to know:
Speaker: Lex Coors, Chief Data Center Technology and Engineering Officer from Digital Realty
Session: Panel– Looking Out: A perspective from international owners and operators
Time: Day 2 | 27th Nov | 12:25 – 13:10
Take a look at the full Touchdown Middle East 2024 Agenda.