Heather Downey

A data center site selection expert with a long and distinguished career in the real estate and data center industries, Heather Downey currently serves as the Director of International Business Development at Vantage Data Centers. Heather began her career leasing and managing space at the historic and iconic Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington. She then transitioned to the life sciences and technology industries before eventually leasing the space to Amazon that would become the first ever Amazon data center. Prior to joining Vantage, Heather worked in data center site selection for two of the world’s leading cloud service providers – AWS and Microsoft.

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The Art and Science of Data Center Site Selection

Heather Downey, April 9, 2020 6 min read

When we think about large companies, we often don’t think of them as being agile and nimble. Many are large organizations that move and pivot…

The Innovative Green Features of Vantage’s VA1 Campus

Vantage Data Centers, November 15, 2019

In late October, Data Center Frontier kicked off a new content series called, “Greener Data,” which is intended to explore the progress that data center…

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