About Us

TDCS are a team of data centre and media business professionals, many with 30+ years of industry experience. Our aim is to provide a cost-effective, efficient, un-biased and targeted range of services to our customers by leveraging our contacts, knowledge and industry expertise in establishing and running data centres.

We listen to you and understand your business objectives and then provide a bespoke solution that meets your requirements.

Our History

2011-2014 Green Mountain used an existing structure (a NATO Bunker to reduce build carbon footprint) and the fjord outside for cooling via a heat exchanger. Hydro power from 3 sources and oxygen reduction fire prevention.

2015 – 2017 LuxConnect Luxembourg Tri Generation plant (KioWatt) built alongside one of their data centers. From biomass (waste wood) they produced electricity for the grid/data center, wood pellets and cooling for the data center. A very ‘green’ solution as they had no properly green power in Luxembourg.

2018-2022 EcoDataCenter in Sweden Built a data center in wood (I wrote many articles about that) next to a district heating system and a wood pellet manufacturing plant to re-use waste server heat summer and winter. Also full carbon calculations on their web site

2021-2023 Node Pole Selling the ‘green benefits of Sweden as a data center destination to international companies. Now closed as very little power left in Sweden!

2024- now T.Loop Building colocation next to district heating plant around Stockholm and energy centers in the basements of offices using immersion cooling units to heat the offices.

TDCS have also promoted for years multi MW battery storage to reduce carbon footprint and immersion cooling (slow adoption of both in our risk averse industry).

Jonathan Evans MA

Jonathan founded TDCS in 2003 when working for Citadel 100 (formally known as Global Voice) – a new co-location facility in Dublin.

He started his career designing computer rooms in the early 80’s. After graduating with an Engineering Degree from Birmingham University, he went on to gather experience in all other aspects of data centres.

Jonathan has:

High-level personal connections in every area in this sector including press & TV, specialist property agents (CBRE, JLL, Cushman, Colliers), data centre consultants, prospective enterprise clients and other verticals including hyper-scalers.
Sales and marketing unique expertise in establishing co-location data centres (in particular ‘green’ facilities).
Knowledge of M&E and data centre design (particularly ‘green’ technology), and is up to date with all the latest trends including the ‘Open Compute Project’.

He successfully:

Contributed to the formation of colocation data centres Citadel 100 in Dublin and Sentrum in the UK.
Assisted in the formation of Green Mountain Data Centre, raising the profile of Norway as a data centre destination and Green Mountain internationally over three years and sourcing multi-megawatt enquiries. As a result, Green Mountain are now a successful colocation company and was recently acquired by an Israeli fund for €1.2 Billion.
Raised the profile internationally of LuxConnect, in Luxembourg, over three years and generated enquiries for co-location space.
Worked in collaboration with the Luxembourg Government in promoting Luxembourg as a fintech destination.
Advises on marketing strategy at EcoDataCenter in Sweden, the 'climate positive' data center, and develops a sales pipeline with international clients.
Consultant to www.nodepole.com advising data center operators who wish to locate in Sweden.

Jonathan on a webinar with JSA TV’s João Marques Lima discussing his experiences and the sustainability challenges facing the industry

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Brian Clavin

Brian has spent his business career in the IT Services business, including roles at Plymouth Development Corporation, Mobil Global Gas and Power, Storage Networks and BT.

He is versed in Data Centre development, sales/marketing and partnership development. Over the last 10+ years, as a Senior Sales Executive in BT, Brian led the successful development and integration of several new data centres into the BT portfolio, while creating successful computer solutions for BT's customers. He brings a network of worldwide contacts, as well as a deep and wide set of contacts within BT, to his work to deliver valuable solutions to his clients' needs and priorities. He has deep experience with data centre customers in the Financial Services, Legal, and Charities sectors. Brian is leading our work with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)and Battery Energy Storage with On-Site Power Generation through Combined Heat and Power and Canopy Solar Generation (BESS+).

Jonathan has:

High-level personal connections in every area in this sector including press & TV, specialist property agents (CBRE, JLL, Cushman, Colliers), data centre consultants, prospective enterprise clients and other verticals including hyper-scalers.
Sales and marketing unique expertise in establishing co-location data centres (in particular ‘green’ facilities).
Knowledge of M&E and data centre design (particularly ‘green’ technology), and is up to date with all the latest trends including the ‘Open Compute Project’.

He successfully:

Contributed to the formation of colocation data centres Citadel 100 in Dublin and Sentrum in the UK.
Assisted in the formation of Green Mountain Data Centre, raising the profile of Norway as a data centre destination and Green Mountain internationally over three years and sourcing multi-megawatt enquiries. As a result, Green Mountain are now a successful colocation company.
Raised the profile internationally of LuxConnect, in Luxembourg, over three years and generated enquiries for co-location space.
Worked in collaboration with the Luxembourg Government in promoting Luxembourg as a fintech destination.
Advises on marketing strategy at EcoDataCenter in Sweden, the 'climate positive' data center, and develops a sales pipeline with international clients.

Aline Olseth

Aline’s main focus is on pre-developments for data centers in the Nordics and South America where preliminary land rights are being secured, along with local approvals to determine the feasibility of any project prior to the application for the grid connection.

Dr Fiona McNaughton

Dr Fiona McNaughton multi award-winning BBC Producer, Writer and Director with thirty years’ experience in online, journalism and marketing experience. Gaining a PhD in science has led to expertise in sustainability, the environment, science and natural history.

Currently looking to take on work in:

TV and video production.
Online resource and website production.
In-depth article-writing.
PR, marketing and campaign work.
Stakeholder and project management.

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Vanessa Moffat

Marketing, strategy and growth hacking specialist, with over 15 years’ experience in the data centre and tech industries.

Holds a BSc in Computer Science, a Post Grad Diploma in Business Administration, as well as an MBA from Essex University where she specialised in agile IT architectures for maximum business value.
Successfully led strategy development and implementation programmes in multiple international data centre organisations.

Gary Keogh

Former MD, Colt Telecom Ireland which he established in 2000 and grew the Telco/DC business from zero revenue to 30m euro by 2012. Moved to Digital Realty in 2013 and launched Ireland’s first indirect air-cooled DC. In the 5 years Gary spent at DRT, he closed many multi MW DC deals around the globe.

Today Gary provides advisory services on Data Centres and Telecommunications investments. Most recently he has advised on a 80MW new DC build and developed a 5 year DC business plan for a leading Telco. He is active in the Irish market promoting - power as a service, battery storage solutions and liquid cooling in line with the commitment for carbon reduction and sustainability.

David Gyulnazaryan

David’s activity is focused on decarbonisation and using the data center as the source of the heat. His experience in heat transfer helps to unite the data center heat rejection and district heating network.

He provide support in finding the hot spots of GHG emissions in whole data center life time and create optimised design for useful heat. David also work in OCP Modular Data Center and Immersion cooling projects to create open source solutions for industry.

Stefan Frenzel

Stefan based in Munich, Germany is an international executive with many years of experience in marketing & business development. He worked for various IT companies during the last 20 years and has a high affinity for IT/technology.

Stefan is committed to offer tailored marketing & business consulting services to his clients, with a special focus on companies from the data centre industry within the DACH region (Germany, Austria & Switzerland). He has the know-how to solve and to assist in achieving quantifiable results, based on proven methods and his extensive network in this important system relevant industry.

Among other clients from the IT-/ data center industry, he is well-known for representing the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) in the DACH region. The Open Compute Project Foundation was initiated in 2011 and is a collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure.

Michael Meaney

A customer-centred professional, Michael has worked in middle management type roles and has managed diverse teams of professionals from digital publishing to data centre services.

His work experience and specialties include: Design/Brand Production and Management, Digital Marketing, Client Account and Vendor Management, Data Centre Quality and Information Security Compliance and Administration. He has previously worked in management roles within; Perigord Group, Citadel100 Data Centres and Keppel Data Centres.

Chris McIntosh

Chris previously Data Centre Operational Manager Barclays Bank with 15 years’ experience of managing data centres across global environments.

Drove the strategy and transformational programme across the EMEA estate (>150 facilities), consolidating small diverse environments into more efficient and easily managed enterprise sites.
Keen to focus on the Oil & Gas Energy and Banking/Finance markets.
Covers all aspects of data centre consolidation and/or migration.
Broad working knowledge of data centre operational management, including 'best practices', 'audit', TCO and energy/financial optimisations regimes.

Chris Horton

Chris has 30 years’ experience working in senior roles for some of the world’s largest IT and communications providers.

His experience includes:

Unisys (14 years) leading vertically aligned sales organisations that provided clients with data centre and network design as well as build services. As senior member of the EMEA management team, Chris played a key role in the definition and delivery of Unisys' move from technology-based sales to a customer services sales corporation.
BT as Financial Services Line of Business Unit Manager.
Amdahl as UK Sales Director.
Fujitsu Services as Financial Services Sales Director and then Head of Data Centre Service Sales where he was a key contributor to the creating and marketing of his company's data centre ‘tower’ offering. In these roles he helped Global clients define and implement part, or all, of their data centre transformation strategy.
UK Sales & Marketing Director for a market leading satellite communications business.
Head of Sales for the Global outsource division of a market leading Californian software company.

His approach is:

To take a holistic view of his clients' business outcome requirements, translating them into a single, high value, low cost Total Cost of Compute (TCC) solution. He achieves this by applying his first-hand understanding of Real Estate, DC Facilities, IT & NW Infrastructure build, service and run costs. This approach involves understanding the impact that these facets have on each other when determining the end to end TCC.
To help his IT clients achieve technical transformation, DC consolidation and operational improvements. This allows his clients to improve the value of the service they provide to their internal customers.

Andrew Waterston

Delivering value in complex environments in both the public and private sector. Senior advisory experience in secure IT environments including Home Office, MOD, Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office.

Capabilities include:

Strategist / Analyst – gathering and analysing data in order to predict trends and develop business-winning strategies, including complex financial modelling, value-chain analysis and HM Treasury 5 case models.
Project and Programme Management – MSP qualified (2008). Procurement, service transformation, data centre migration, merger and acquisition, cost optimisation and productivity improvement.
Service Management – creation of new operating models in insourced, outsourced and bi-modal environments.
Familiar with ITIL, CMMI, Lean, Agile, IT4IT, TOGAF, Burke-Litwin, DevOps.
International experience includes end-to-end service design, automation and toolset implementation.
Product Management and Development – P & L management of a business, product or shared service including proposition development, demand generation, marketing, business case, technical pre-sales, partnering and delivering the capability.
Property and Facilities Management – formerly a chartered surveyor, Andrew designed, built and operated offices, trading environments, warehouses and data centres at scale.
Logistics – operation and optimisation of the supply chain in complex and secure environments.
Data centres – former chair of the UK council of data centre operators, head of operations for a global DC operator and Director of Hosting for the UK Government.

Anita Kennedy

Anita has an exceptional background in Start-ups’ Sales, Senior Executive Management.

Anita has worked in many countries - Specializing in large Global Outsourcing deals via direct sales/indirect Global SI's and Alliances having worked for/with some of the world’s largest & leading System Integrators & Telecommunication companies in the world such as IBM, HP, Fujitsu, Dell, BT, C&W/Vodafone TCS, HCL, Wipro, Cognizant, Infosys and Schneider Electric; covering many aspects of today’s wider business/IT environment.
She works across all verticals both Direct/Indirect Channels & Alliances with, multiple 10,000's of global exec contacts, of corporate and Government customers, built up over many years, within a multitude of industries.
She has a 'unique' style: understanding her client’s business needs with the ability to articulate back and, work through a win-win situation whilst, still holding quite a rare entrepreneur quality, within large corporate environments.

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