CEO Robert Dunn and leadership members to speak at Atlantic Convergence event

Lisbon, Portugal – October 2, 2024 – Start Campus, an innovator in the site selection, design and building of 100% renewable energy AI-scale data center ecosystems, announces its participation in the Atlantic Convergence event, taking place October 1-3, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. CEO Robert Dunn is set to present a case study during the event delving into the various factors involved in the large-scale development of AI-ready data centers.

Atlantic Convergence aims to connect the digital infrastructure industry by bringing together enterprises, institutions and providers across continents to engage in building a shared future. With a focus on the emerging digital infrastructure ecosystem around the Atlantic Ocean, the event will cultivate meaningful collaboration and foster innovative solutions across the value chain.

Dunn’s presentation, titled “Case study: Sustainable & AI-scale data center development in Portugal,” is set for October 3. The Start Campus CEO’s talk will cover the unique challenges in developing AI-ready data centers, such as the selection of sites that can provide 100% renewable and low-cost power, efficient and sustainable cooling, strong connectivity, a strong supply chain, and the ability to develop at scale, all of which Portugal can provide.

WHAT: Case study: Sustainable & AI-scale data center development in Portugal

WHERE: Nexus Stage

WHEN: 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. October 3, 2024

WHO: Robert Dunn, CEO, Start Campus

Start Campus will be participating throughout the event and have been invited to an exclusive Digital Atlantic Working Group, which consists of private sector leaders and other experts from the four Atlantic continents and will be hosted by Dan Hamilton on October 2; Luis Rodrigues, COO and Fernando Azevedo, Head of Connectivity for Start Campus will be participating on behalf of the company. The same day, Alberto Petermann, Head of Design & Design and Delivery for Start Campus and Board Member of PortugalDC, will be a speaker in a panel “Talking with Paul: Expanding the Data Center footprint to serve a new data gravity in the Atlantic” moderated by Paul Rendek, Senior Consultant, DSTREAM GROUP. He will be joined on stage by Francisco Porras, DCBU, Merlín Properties and Nacho Velilla, CEO, Templus.

To learn more about Start Campus, visit: https://www.startcampus.pt/en.

To register for the Atlantic Convergence event, click here.

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About Start Campus

Start Campus is responsible for the development of the SINES project, a Hyperscale Data Centre campus with a capacity of 1.2 GW in Sines, in an investment of up to 8.5 billion euros. It will be one of the largest data center campuses in Europe and meets the growing demand from large international technology companies. It will create up to 1,200 direct highly skilled jobs and 8,000 indirect jobs by 2028. It is located in Sines and will benefit from all the strategic advantages such as cooling systems with sea water, access to the high-voltage electricity grid, connectivity through the connection to international high-capacity networks of fiber optic cables with North America, Africa and South America. SINES project will be one of the largest data center ecosystems with 100% green energy at competitive prices in a premium location in Europe, which is the perfect gateway to Europe and the world.

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