CyrusOne Promotes John Hatem to President Amid Global AI Infrastructure Boom

CyrusOne , a leading global data center developer and operator specializing in AI-optimized digital infrastructure, announced the promotion of John Hatem to President, effective immediately. The leadership expansion positions the company to capitalize on unprecedented demand for AI-ready data center infrastructure and recognizes Hatem’s impressive track record in anticipating customer requirements and building an end-to-end delivery system that provides superior time-to-market at efficient cost.

In his expanded role, Hatem will oversee Global Sales, Global Procurement, and U.S. Design and Construction teams, directly aligning customer engagement with delivery capabilities to provide hyperscale and enterprise AI customers with an integrated process for acquiring new capacity.

“John has been at the forefront of datacenter design and development for more than a decade. Experts from the world’s leading technology companies value his expertise in developing new datacenter capacity that meets ever-increasing demands for power, cooling, and high resilience. More than ever, customers demand tight integration between their infrastructure and CyrusOne datacenters, and John leads an outstanding team who deliver that to world-class standards.”

– Eric Schwartz, CEO, CyrusOne

“We’re seeing unprecedented demand from customers across industries who need infrastructure partners capable of delivering complex, mission-critical environments at scale and at pace. I’m excited to lead our teams in meeting this broad market opportunity while taking a more visible role in demonstrating CyrusOne’s technical and execution capabilities across the industry.”

– John Hatem, President, CyrusOne

Positioned for AI Infrastructure Boom

The global AI infrastructure market is projected to reach $143 billion by 2027, driven by enterprise adoption of generative AI, machine learning workloads, and high-performance computing applications. The technical requirements of AI workloads and equipment can reach power consumption that is 10-20 times greater per rack than equipment that was state-of-the-art less than 5 years ago. While there are numerous new products and engineering solutions to address these challenges, customers, and the investors who finance this infrastructure, require efficient and resilient designs that deliver operational resilience in real-world environments, not just on paper. As a respected industry veteran, John embodies the real-world know-how that CyrusOne brings to these challenges.

Customers depend on CyrusOne’s experience and engineering know-how to deliver high availability and stability even in this fast-changing environment. John has captained the company’s efforts to fulfill this mission including the rollout of Intelliscale facilities that deliver this performance and the imminent release of Intelliscale3 which represents the next generation of AI-oriented datacenter infrastructure. As the Intelliscale product family expands, John also leads the ongoing refinement and upgrade of CyrusOne’s pioneering manufacturing-driven approach to data center construction, applying standardized processes that significantly improved construction timelines, quality metrics, and customer satisfaction while enabling faster, more cost-effective delivery at scale.

Strategic Organizational Alignment

Hatem’s promotion creates direct alignment between CyrusOne’s sales organization and its design and construction capabilities, enabling faster response to customer requirements and more efficient project delivery. His oversight of procurement and construction also positions the company to better manage supply chain complexities and cost pressures in the current market environment.

The organizational change reflects CyrusOne’s strategy to capture market share in high-growth segments while maintaining the operational discipline that has driven the company’s success with hyperscale customers. Hatem will continue to report to CEO Eric Schwartz and will work closely with the company’s development and finance teams to execute CyrusOne’s global growth strategy.