James is a subject matter expert in data centre design and delivery, having delivered projects in over 14 countries and 3 continents, often with diverse and remote teams. During his data centre career, he has carried out due diligence reports and feasibility studies, white space fit outs, refurbishments, migrations and new build projects. The client base for these projects have been enterprise organisations, co-location providers and hyperscale owner/operators. He has been closely involved with the campus planning of large hyperscale facilities along with the test fits for template design on sites. He is a specialist in early works, delivering ‘shovel ready’ developments as well as bringing project through to final completion. Within the data centre community, he has lead specialist interest groups for companies and speaks regularly at international conferences on a variety of data centre subjects. He is a published author of the ‘Bytes, Watts and Carbon’ newsletter on LinkedIn.