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Former Dupont Fabros CEO Starts CloudHQ, Data Center Company
📅 - The former co-founder and CEO of Dupont Fabros Technology, Hossein Fateh, started a new data center company called CloudHQ. Fateh left Dupont Fabros, one of the largest data center real estate investment trusts in the country, to start the company, according to Data Center Knowledge.
The CloudHQ company is described as one that “leases data center space and builds data centers at massive scale.” Data center space continues to grow in popularity as nation-wide company migration to the cloud increases.
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