Before reaching this point, the business first began as Boorer’s idea and was entirely bootstrapped in its early years.
“Everyone said, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it'.
“Failure wasn’t an option.”
Demand for data centres, like the ones it’s building, was still booming and could increase by 10 times from here, he said.
“Data centres being built is a sign of current and future economic prosperity ... Because they are the digital infrastructure factories.”
CDC Data Centres founder and CEO Greg Boorer built the A$17b business from nothing 18 years ago.
CDC Data Centres founder and CEO Greg Boorer built the A$17b business from nothing 18 years ago.
Get the first look inside CDC’s Sydney data centre campus and learn how Government information, big tech players and AI are fuelling demand, in today’s episode of Markets with Madison above.
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Madison Malone (nee Reidy) is host and executive producer of the NZ Herald’s investment show Markets with Madison . She joined the Herald in 2022 after working in investment, and has covered business and economics for television and radio broadcasters.
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