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

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