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Phill Lawson-Shanks

Phill Lawson-Shanks

Phill Lawson-Shanks has more than 25 years of experience identifying new opportunities for further growth of leading data center infrastructure, network architecture, and cloud solutions in the U.S. and abroad. As chief innovation officer at Aligned, he is responsible for the management of revenue generation and profitability objectives, as well as championing key marketing and communications activities aimed at maximizing new business development. Prior to joining Aligned, Lawson-Shanks served as chief innovation officer at EdgeConneX, where he was instrumental in driving strategies focused on creating the next generation of network edge-based data centers for the digital content ecosystem. Throughout his career, he has also served in numerous senior executive level positions at Virtacore, Alcatel-Lucent, Savvis (now CenturyLink Technology Solutions), and MCI (now Verizon Digital Media Services). He currently holds eight active technology patents and serves on the board of directors for Netrality Data Centers as well as the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) advisory board.

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Thermal Management

Data Centers and the Cooling Density Conundrum

It’s all about removing the heat
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Phill Lawson-Shanks
March 9, 2022
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Preceded only by humanity’s perseverance and talent for innovation, data has become the world’s most precious resource, interwoven with virtually every aspect of our professional and personal lives.


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Sustainability and Lower Cost of Infrastructure Are Within Reach

Even as data centers increase computing density
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Phill Lawson-Shanks
November 2, 2020
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Most important to the challenge of sustainability is the matter of how we design, build and operate the physical data centers.
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