Spencer Viernes and Rhea Williams on E3 Platform’s MDIPS

Spencer Viernes, CEO, and Rhea Williams, Chief Commercial Officer, launched E3 Platforms (E3) two years ago to address a widening gap between power supply and demand in the data centre sector. 

The company develops what it calls Master-Planned Digital Infrastructure Parks (MDIPs) – large-scale industrial developments that combine land development, power generation and digital infrastructure on sites spanning over 1,000 acres.

"Our core mission is to deploy a business model that benefits the digital infrastructure industry, especially where it sits today," says Spencer. 

“There’s a huge gap between where the supply of power capacity is and where the demand for it is – all while balancing that with the needs of the communities in which those digital infrastructure developers would deploy those specific projects.”

The company emerged from recognition that traditional development models no longer serve the data centre industry's needs.

"We had originally come in thinking that we would be building data centres and going to be supplying a small bit of behind-the-metre power to bridge the gap until the utility was able to meet us,” says Rhea. “But things have grown exponentially and changed in the industry since that inception."