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Inside Data Centre Podcast
Who are the people powering the world’s data centers?
Inside Data Centre Podcast is a podcast about the global data center industry, focused on the careers, companies, and conversations shaping modern digital infrastructure. Hosted by Andy Davis, the podcast features interviews with data center professionals, investors, operators, vendors, and industry leaders from around the world. Each episode explores how people enter the data center sector, how their careers develop, and the challenges facing data centers as demand for cloud, AI, and connectivity continues to accelerate. Covering hyperscale, colocation, operations, sustainability, and skills, Inside Data Centre Podcast is essential listening for anyone working in, or looking to work in, the data center industry.
Inside Data Centre Podcast
The Data Centre Industry's Biggest Problem Isn't Innovation | Tom Babington, Adaptive MDC
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In this episode of the Inside Data Centre Podcast, Andy Davis is joined by Tom Babington, Founder and CEO of Adaptive MDC. With a career spanning 42 countries from building for the military in Afghanistan to delivering hyperscale in Finland, Tom explains how his approach to modular data centre design was shaped by solving problems on the ground, and why execution, not innovation, is now the industry's biggest bottleneck.
Key Topics:
- How a career across 42 countries shaped Tom's approach to modular delivery
- Why modular doesn't mean small: reference designs now scale past 100MW
- Execution, not ideas, is the industry's real barrier to faster delivery
- Cross-vendor collaboration could unlock timelines vendors say are fixed
- Public perception of data centres is shifting from ignored to scrutinised
- Tom's advice for newcomers: stay curious, don't fear not knowing
Tune in for a grounded take on where modular data centres are headed, and what it will actually take to keep pace with demand.
The Inside Data Centre Podcast is recorded in partnership with DataX Connect, a specialist data centre recruitment company based in the UK. They operate on a global scale to place passionate individuals at the heart of leading data centre companies.
To learn more about Andy Davis and the rest of the DataX team, click here: DataX Connect