Mike Grella Joins Gotspace Data Partners As Chief Operating Officer | News

BOSTON – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Sept. December 2021–

Gotspace Data Partners, a Boston-based data technology development company, today announced the exciting addition of former Amazon director Mike Grella as the company’s new chief operating officer. Grella will support Gotspace in the master development of a new digital infrastructure corridor between New York and Boston.

Grella’s leadership and oversight of the company’s regional plan is strategically focused on serving the critical IT needs of 35 million users across nearly 60,000 square miles in seven states using existing national multiple fiber providers. Gotspace has secured at least 1,500 acres of land for its data hubs in Wallingford, Groton, Griswold and Bozrah, Connecticut, providing the best location for interconnectivity for the region’s growth plans for data centers and other technology-intensive infrastructures.

With seven locations that can accommodate more than 25 hyperscale data centers in its pipeline, Grella is confident that the company’s locations will be very attractive to Fortune 500 U.S. and multinational companies for their cloud computing and data storage needs . The region is home to 10% of the country’s population and is the focus of more than 100 large insurance companies, major medical technology and pharmaceuticals, gambling, financial institutions, defense companies, and other technology companies.

In his functions as Legal Director, Director of Public Policy, Director of Infrastructure and Director of Economic Development for Amazon from 2012 to 2019, Grella was responsible for many public-private partnerships and played a key role in expanding Amazon’s e-commerce logistics and Last -Mile delivery network. Grella also worked with hundreds of federal, state, regional and local officials to help Amazon build millions of square feet of new development.

Grella was also responsible for the economic development of Amazon Web Services, the company’s fastest growing and most profitable global data center business that supports billions in infrastructure investments, and the strategic planning of large data center hub projects and critical data center deployments around the world.

“At Amazon, Mike Grella has played an important role in the e-commerce and data center boom over the past decade,” said Nicholas Fiorillo, president of Gotspace Data Partners. “He has led large-scale digital infrastructure developments worth billions of dollars in the United States and around the world. We expect that Mike Grella will bring the leadership skills that have made him consistently successful at Amazon to master planning and developing the expansion of the region’s data center corridor, as well as other industrial applications such as e-commerce and advanced manufacturing, and we are proud to do so Gotspace can continue to play its role in making Connecticut and the entire New England Data Corridor an immediate reality by 2022. “

“The New England region is home to nearly 15 million people, including the wealthiest, most educated, connected data users and consumers in the country. However, the availability and scalability as well as infrastructure-ready, connected locations are limited, ”says Grella. “With our reliance on e-commerce, remote working, streaming, internet and connected devices, in addition to the proliferation of 5G networks and autonomous vehicles, and the world’s insatiable need for low latency connectivity and cloud computing infrastructure from hyper Scale to eternity – mile edge computing, the New Englanders are underserved and Gotspace is ready to meet the growing market demand. “

“With Mike Grella at the helm, the Gotspace team has everything it takes to become the brightest star in the Boston tech startup world of late. We are on track to attract digital visionaries, technology leaders and disruptors in all digital areas in e-commerce and data center development, operations and app services under Gotspace’s digital brands, to explore strategic partnerships with the country’s largest content providers and the Take advantage of the company’s 6.5 million digital infrastructure pipeline in all e-commerce sectors to serve the New England market, ”added Fiorillo. “Gotspace also advises Nabeel Mahmood, whom he believes is the Tony Stark of the digital world and hopes that he can continue to bring the guardians of the digital galaxy together in the Gotspace team. We are very excited to be working with Mahmood, a world famous technologist, futurologist, his data intelligence based technology company and a team of Industry 4.0, big data innovators, engineers, energy and technology experts to support Gotspace as we are at the forefront of the Speerbau stand from the New England Data Center & Technology Infrastructure Corridor. “

Gotspace Data Partners played a vital role in enacting one of the best data tax incentive laws in the US in March 2021, then Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed this new law a world-class data tax incentive program (State of Connecticut HB 6514) last summer. These incentives include 20-30 year sales, property, and property tax exemptions on an investment of $ 200-400 million and maybe exactly what big tech and big data have been looking for. The 30,000 members of the Connecticut State Building Trade Counsel have expressed their support and enthusiasm for the potential construction boom that would accompany this large-scale master’s development project.

“Earlier this year, Gotspace completed a project work ‘PLA’ with the Connecticut State Buildings Trade Counsel ‘CSBTC’ and continues to be committed to local unions and our state artisans and tech companies will eventually see thousands of jobs and some much-needed construction jobs and hope that Many more industry-specific high-paying e-commerce jobs will be created for the great state of Connecticut in the near future, “says Fiorillo.

Gotspace continues on its critical journey to break the ground with multiple data centers on more than 1,500 acres of land controlled by the Connecticut company.

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