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The importance of collaboration Ernest is eager to emphasise that Metrobloks’ partnerships are essential to powering the future of data centre design. The company prides itself on its range of partnerships that operate across the industry, including the likes of LandGate, Colliers and RGV.
“ Data centre development relies on collaborative expertise, it’ s a team sport,” he says.“ It requires so many partnerships with diverse functional skills, which is one of the reasons I personally enjoy it so much. One such partnership is with Colliers: a global diversified professional services and investment management company which operates through three industry-leading platforms – Real Estate Services, Engineering, and Investment Management.
“ Jim Tsaknis from Colliers is wonderful and is a technologist as well as a broker who understands data centres,” Ernest says.“ He’ s been a great advocate for me personally and a wonderful partner as we try to continue to grow our pipeline of sites.”
The company also partners with LandGate, a leading provider of data solutions for site selection, origination, development, financing and market analysis of US renewable energy and infrastructure projects, which includes data centres.
Vanderweil Engineering RGV is another such partner – they are a mission critical engineering services firm with a very customer centric approach who have designed over 2GWs of data centre projects.
“ I’ ve been fortunate to count Jim Gikas Managing Director, Daniel Bodenski and Paul Corrado as great partners and subject matter experts I can call on,” Ernest shares.
“ All of our partners have all been incredible champions, with their mission critical expertise, delivering every single time.”
Looking ahead, the future is bright for Metrobloks. In May 2024, the company incorporated and subsequently raised capital from Current Equity Partners with the backing of Serena Capital. It has also started looking to convert customer interest into papered documents such as preleases, LOIs and MoUs.
134 April 2025