Deal Talks

Simon McCormick, CCO of Echelon Data Centres, discusses models of collaboration between datacentres and utilities across Europe and the US

TMT Finance Season 1 Episode 22

Simon McCormick, CCO of Echelon Data Centres, discusses how the dynamics between datacentres and utility companies are evolving in line with the changing risk-return profile of greenfield datacentre development across Europe and the US. 

  • The JV partnership between Echelon and Iberdrola - 00:50 
  • American/European approaches to the datacentre-utility-investor paradigm - 2:35 
  • Risk perceptions and impact on traditional developer-led models - 5:20 
  • Why Spain works; will the JV model work elsewhere? - 9:37 
  • The Madrid-Sur project and future scalability - 13:05