when Scott Peterson left Digital Realty Trust, the company he-cofounded in 2004, Digital was the world’s second-largest data center provider by revenue. He was the key architect behind the giant’s industry-changing deals including the $7.5 billion acquisition of DuPont Fabros and the $1.9 billion acquisition of Telx.
This week he announced his latest deal. Together with fellow Digital alumni Christopher computer science and engineering and Stephen Taylor, he has formed Global Compute Infrastructure, a joint venture with Goldman Sachs, to build a new global data center platform.
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With Goldman’s backing, Global Compute plans to buy and build digital infrastructure assets, including data centers and network infrastructure, and provide infrastructure services to cloud providers and other large customers.
“We’re not looking to build a little Digital Realty,” Peterson, the new company’s CEO, told DCK. “We are looking to execute investments in, broadly speaking, the data infrastructure space, but in reality, most of it will be in data centers.”
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