The DCD>Awards Ceremony took place on 11 December, 2024 at Grosvenor House London, to recognize the best people, projects, and teams who put innovation at the heart of our vibrant industry.

Tune in below to see the evening's winners:

Order of Ceremony:

Edge Data Center Project of the Year
This category was sponsored by VIAVI Solutions

Finalists included:

• Elea Data Centers Auto-Pilot Project: Unparalleled Cloud Connectivity Automation (Brazil)
• Linkpool Utilizing Edge Architecture to Drive Blockchain Innovation in collaboration with Pulsant (UK)
• nLighten Pan-European, Sustainably-Focused Edge Data Center Platform (Europe)
• Scale Computing Royal Farms Edge Computing Deployment (USA)

Asia Pacific Data Center Project of the Year
This category was sponsored by Huawei

Finalists included:

• Bridge Data Centres Malaysia MY06C2 Data Center Project (Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
• Erilyan Equinix SY5 Phase 3 Data Center Project (NSW, Australia)
• Firmus Metal International Sustainable HyperCube Deployment in collaboration with ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Singapore)
• K2 Strategic Malaysia JHR01-02 Data Center Project (Johor Bahru, Malaysia)

Middle East & Africa Data Center Project of the Year
This category was sponsored by Stulz

Finalists included:

• AHB.ai Maahr DC Water Cooled HPC Data Center in collaboration with Emircom and Lenovo United Arab Emirates (Sharjah, UAE)
• ALGcom Modular Edge Data Center in collaboration with Converged Technology Networks (Malawi, Africa)
• iXAfrica Data Centres Innovative Hyperscale Data Centre in collaboration with Schneider Electric (Nairobi, Kenya)
• Meinhardt Moro Hub Green Data Center Project (Dubai, Middle East

Latin America Data Center Project of the Year
This category was sponsored by Hyphen

Finalists included:

• Cirion Technologies 1st Anti-Seismic Hyperscale Data Centers in Latin America in collaboration with Mendes Holler Engineering (Santiago, Chile)
• Grupo Salinas Robotics Data Center Automation in collaboration with Panduit (Mexico)
• GTD Data Center Lurin (Lima, Peru)
• Scala Data Centers SGRUTB08 Data Center (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

North American Data Center Project of the Year
This category was sponsored by ZincFive

Finalisits included:

• ECL MV1 Off-Grid Data Center in Mountain View (California)
• GRC Immersion Cooling Technology Houston Data Center in collaboration with Shell (Texas)
• Open Compute Project Foundation Aligned Data Centers OCP Ready™ for Hyperscale Certification Project (Chicago)
• TECfusions Adaptive Reuse and High-Density Compute Power (Virginia)

European Data Center Project of the Year
This category was sponsored by Global Commissioning

Finalists included:

• CBRE Data Center Solutions Start Campus High-Density Deployment (Sines, Portugal)
• Conapto Stockholm 4 South in collaboration with Coromatic (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Green Mountain OSL-Hamar TikTok Data Center (Hamar, Norway)
• Nscale Sustainable AI Data Center Operations in collaboration with Supermicro & AMD (Glomfjord, Norway)

Mission Critical Tech Innovation Award
This category was sponsored by CBRE

Finalists included:

• Centersquare Liquid Cooling Showcase delivered by MiCiM
• Coolgradient AI-Powered Data Center Optimization
• Legrand Starline Remote Plug-In Actuator
• Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT Design CFD for Optimal Cooling

Energy Impact Award
This category was sponsored by RED Engineering

Finalists included:

• Chindata Group Taihang Mountain Energy and Information Technology Industrial Campus in Lingqiu (Shanxi Province, China)
• ECL MV1 Off-Grid Data Center in Mountain View (California)
• T.Loop Grid Capacity Project (Sweden)
• Urban Electric Power Zinc-Manganese Battery Backup at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in collaboration with Tate (California)

Environmental Impact Award
This category was sponsored by Equans Data Centers

Finalists included:

• ECL MV1 Off-Grid Data Center in Mountain View (California)
• Edged Energy Global Network of Sustainable Data Centers
• Intel D2P1 High-Density Data Center (California)
• Penta Infra BRU01 A New Model for Integrated Sustainability in collaboration with Ghelamco (Brussels)

Community Impact Award
This category was sponsored by Eland Cables

Finalists included:

• Applied Digital Ellendale Community and Economic Development Project in collaboration with North Dakota House of Representatives (USA)
• Google Data Centers Community Development & Social Impact (CDSI) Initiatives (USA)
• NTT DATA Maharashtra Water Resilience for Communities and Agriculture (India)
• Telehouse Europe South Campus Development and Circular Economy Initiative in collaboration with Black & White Engineering and Skanska (London)

Data Center Workforce Initiative of the Year
This category was sponsored by DCD>Academy

Finalists included:

• Colt Data Centre Services ’AIM’ Talent Resourcing and Management Framework
• Data4 Group Dynamic Talent Sourcing Strategy
• Google Data Centers Community Development & Social Impact (CDSI) Initiatives
• Microsoft Datacenter Academy (DCA) Global Initiative

Editor’s Choice Award
This category was sponsored by Mercury Engineering

The DCD editorial team shortlisted their favorite projects from the year's outstanding entrants, choosing their favorite project of the year to crown the Editor's Choice award recipient.

Data Center Construction Team of the Year
This category was sponsored by Cleveland Cable Company

Finalists included:

• AdaniConneX Hyderabad Construction Team (India)
• Erilyan Equinix SY5 Phase 3 Construction Team (Australia)
• Scala Data Centers Phase 2 of the Tamboré Campus (Brazil)
• Vantage Data Centers AZ13 Campus Construction Team (USA)

Data Center Operations Team of the Year
This category was sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric

Finalists included:

• Elea Data Centers Operations Team: Ensuring Uptime During the Rio Grande do Sul Floods (Brazil)
• Grupos Salinas Colab 2.0 Operations Team: Delivering Autonomous Models with High Availability (Mexico)
• Pure Data Centres Central Operations Team: Developing and Delivering 200MW of IT Capacity (London, Jakarta, Dublin)
• Teraco Data Environments Operations Team: Tackling Grid Availability (South Africa)

Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year
This category was sponsored by Kirby Group Engineering

Finalists included:

• Erik Haugvaldstad, Operation Specialist/Automation Engineer, Green Mountain
• Guilherme Amorim Obelleiro, Installation Coordinator, Scala Data Centers
• Laura Munoz Becerra, Connectivity Engineer, Meta
• Sean Byrne, Senior Project Mechanical Engineer, Ethos Engineering

Data Center Woman of the Year
This category was sponsored by Anord Mardix

Finalists included:

• Barbara Sacha, Partner, Cundall
• Dame Dawn Childs, CEO, Pure Data Centres Group
• Sunita Bottse, CEO, Mena Digital Hub
• Wabo Majavu, Executive Strategy and Business Operations, Africa Data Centres

Outstanding Contribution to the Data Center Industry
This category was sponsored by Mercury Engineering

Every industry has its champions, thought leaders, and pioneers who will be revered for their achievements for years to come.

The previous winners of this Award are all distinguished by their extensive service to the data center industry through publication, education, developing innovation, and active involvement with the data center community globally.

Each previous winner of this Award has in some way changed the way in which the industry looks at key challenges or key opportunities and through that process changed the way we look at ourselves.

The winner of this award is selected by a specially convened panel of judges. There are no finalists.

Ceremony Concludes