Sustainability Magazine April 2023 | Page 66

SCALA DATA CENTERS

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“ We are a partner of DigitalBridge , but I see the DigitalBridge team much more as an extension of the companies they invest in ”

MARCOS PEIGO CO-FOUNDER & CEO SCALA DATA CENTERS
A late market entrance , spurring new growth mindset Interestingly , Peigo explains that one of the principal reasons behind Scala ’ s trademark approach to growth is the fact that the provider came to the data centre market relatively late in the game .
“ When we arrived , our competitors were already established , with a fragmented capacity distributed among the LATAM countries . So , we decided to invest not in shared facilities , but in single tenant facilities foreseeing an expansion in the demand similar to what has happened in other more developed markets ,” Peigo explains .
“ Instead of starting by building one data centre and sharing space in that facility for
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