Mike Grella Joins Gotspace Data Partners As Chief Operating Officer
Former Amazon Director of Economic Development to Support New England’s Transformation into the next US data center corridor.
Gotspace Data Partners, a Boston based data technology development company, today announces the exciting addition of former Amazon Director of Economic Development Mike Grella, as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer. In what is being touted as the largest data center development start-up in the northeastern United States, Grella will help guide Gotspace in their master development of a new digital infrastructure corridor between New York and Boston.
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“At Amazon, Mike Grella played an important role in the e-commerce and data center boom over the past decade”
Grella’s guidance and oversight of the company’s regional plan is strategically designed to meet the critical IT needs of 35 million users across almost 60,000 square miles through seven states using existing national multiple fiber providers. Gotspace has secured at least 1,500 acres of land in Wallingford, Groton, Griswold, and Bozrah, Connecticut for its data hubs, providing the best location for inter-connectivity of the region’s growth plans for data center and other technology intensive infrastructure.
With seven campuses that can accommodate 25+ hyperscale data centers in its pipeline, Grella is confident the company’s campuses will be highly attractive to Fortune 500 US and multi-national companies for their cloud computing and data storage needs. The region is home to 10% of the country’s population and the center of gravity for more than 100 major insurance companies, large medical technology, and pharmaceutical, gaming, financial institutions, defense contractors, and other technology companies.
In his roles 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 was instrumental in facilitating the expansion of Amazon’s e-commerce logistics and last mile delivery network. Grella also collaborated with hundreds of federal, state, regional and local officials to support Amazon’s construction of tens of millions of square feet of new development.
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Grella was also responsible for the economic development function for Amazon Web Services, the company’s fastest growing and most profitable global data center business segment supporting billions of dollars in infrastructure investment, and the strategic planning of large -scale data center hub projects and critical data center deployments around the world.
“At Amazon, Mike Grella played an important role in the e-commerce and data center boom over the past decade,” says Nicholas Fiorillo, President, Gotspace Data Partners. “He has guided large scale digital infrastructure developments worth billions of dollars across the United States and around the world. We expect that Mike Grella will bring the leadership skills that made him historically effective at Amazon to the master planning and development roll out of the region’s data center corridor expansion as well as other industrial uses including e-commerce & advanced manufacturing, and we are proud that Gotspace can continue to play its role helping the state of Connecticut and the entire New England Data Corridor become an immediate reality heading in 2022.”
