2024 – A pivotal year for Kao Data

The year end is always a time for reflection, whilst the new year is marked by energy and ambition, so I thought I would outline why I am confident 2024 is going to be a truly fantastic year for Kao Data. This is not only because of the recent arrival of our new CEO, Doug […]
Commissioning KLON-02 – An Example of World-Class Collaboration

Data centre development projects are inherently complex, with their need to balance a wide range of objectives on behalf of sophisticated end users, in an evolving and competitive environment, engaging with specialist technologies and seeking to continually improve the speed, efficiency and quality of our end product. It is a sector where we believe in […]
My time at Kao Data – Supporting the industry’s brightest minds

A couple of weeks ago, my time as Chairman of Kao Data – the high-performance data centre developer-operator I’ve been working with since 2017 – came to an end. It’s always hard to know the correct point to step away from anything you’re interested in and passionate about, but it was the right time to […]
Feedback from the trade show floor – Kao Data does the Tech Show London 2023!

Like many of our industry colleagues we’ve spent Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Tech Show London, at ExCel, and it’s been a brilliant couple of days. It certainly felt like the industry used the opportunity to finally come together after some turbulent pandemic-affected years and it was good to see people away […]
“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought”

“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought” Sir Charles Kao 4 November 1933 – 23 September 2018Nobel Prize in Physics (2009) We still have a lot to learn from Sir Charles Kao, the physicist termed the ‘father of fibreoptics’, the Nobel Prize winner, the […]
View from the COO – Managing the challenges of a changing climate

Readers of the Kao Data blog will no doubt be aware that it’s been a while since I put pen to paper. It’s been an incredibly busy, but also positive last few months that have seen me being involved in a whole variety of strategic and operational developments across our expanding data centre portfolio. Most […]
Collaboration is key to customer implementation

Last week the Kao Data team held our 2022/23 kick-off meeting in London and it was great to see so many colleagues in the same room. We’re a really close-knit team and it’s been tough spending the best part of two years working at distance, so to finally all come together was very rewarding. What […]
Season’s Greetings from Kao Data

It’s that time of year where celebrations abound and we take a step back to reflect on the year coming to a close. Unfortunately, Covid is once again limiting celebrations here in the UK, but the data centre industry certainly has much to be merry about. While 2020 defined the industry as critical infrastructure in […]
Collaboration is key

Recognition for hard work is one of the greatest rewards we can receive. No matter what profession, job title, or career experience we have, we all want to be acknowledged for the work we do and the success we achieve. Here at Kao Data we were delighted to be short-listed for “Operations Team of the […]
Why I joined Kao Data

Back in October I was delighted to join the team here at Kao Data as their new Operations Director and as I write this I’m coming to the end of my first month on the job. It’s been a fantastically busy, hectic introduction but also thoroughly exciting. What became clear on day one was I’ve […]