Ian Francis

EMEA Mechanical SME, Digital Realty

I am a building services engineer with 30 years of consultancy experience. I led the mission critical sector in a London based design consultancy up until March 2024, and I am now a mechanical engineering subject matter expert with Digital Realty. Over the past 15 years I have worked in mission critical environments, where I have built up a good knowledge across all disciplines. I have specialized in the design of resilient and energy efficient data centre cooling solutions for a range of colocation, scale and hyperscale customers. My current focus is on liquid to chip cooling and how this can be effectively deployed across both new and existing sites.