CyrusOne President John Hatem [Photo: CyrusOne]
Veteran data center executive John Hatem has been promoted to president of Dallas-based CyrusOne, a global data center developer and operator specializing in AI-optimized digital infrastructure, effective immediately.
“John has been at the forefront of datacenter design and development for more than a decade,” CEO Eric Schwartz said. “Experts from the world’s leading technology companies value his expertise in developing new datacenter capacity that meets ever-increasing demands for power, cooling, and high resilience. More than ever, customers demand tight integration between their infrastructure and CyrusOne datacenters, and John leads an outstanding team who delivers that to world-class standards.”
The company said the leadership expansion positions it to capitalize on what it called “unprecedented demand for AI-ready data center infrastructure” and recognizes Hatem’s impressive track record in anticipating customer requirements and building an end-to-end delivery system that provides superior time-to-market at efficient cost.
In his expanded role, Hatem will oversee global sales, global procurement, and U.S. design and construction teams, directly aligning customer engagement with delivery capabilities to provide hyperscale and enterprise AI customers with an integrated process for acquiring new capacity.
“We’re seeing unprecedented demand from customers across industries who need infrastructure partners capable of delivering complex, mission-critical environments at scale and at pace,” Hatem said in a statement. “I’m excited to lead our teams in meeting this broad market opportunity while taking a more visible role in demonstrating CyrusOne’s technical and execution capabilities across the industry.”
Addressing data center challenges in the age of AI
CyrusOne said the global AI infrastructure market is projected to reach $143 billion by 2027, driven by enterprise adoption of generative AI, machine learning workloads, and high-performance computing applications.
The technical requirements of AI workloads and equipment can reach power consumption that is 10-20 times greater per rack than equipment that was state-of-the-art less than five years ago, the company said. While there are numerous new products and engineering solutions to address those challenges, customers and the investors who finance this infrastructure require efficient and resilient designs that deliver operational resilience in real-world environments, Cyrus One added.
CyrusOne said that Hatem has led its efforts to fulfill the company’s mission including the rollout of Intelliscale facilities that deliver the performance and the imminent release of Intelliscale3 which represents the next generation of AI-oriented datacenter infrastructure.
As the company’s Intelliscale product family expands, Hatem also leads the ongoing refinement and upgrade of CyrusOne’s manufacturing-driven approach to data center construction, applying standardized processes that significantly improved construction timelines, quality metrics, and customer satisfaction while enabling faster, more cost-effective delivery at scale.
CyrusOne said that Hatem’s promotion creates direct alignment between CyrusOne’s sales organization and its design and construction capabilities, enabling faster response to customer requirements and more efficient project delivery.
Hatem will continue to report to Schwartz and will work closely with CyrusOne’s development and finance teams to execute its global growth strategy.
CyrusOne operates more than 55 data centers across the United States, Europe, and Japan.
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