Máté Kovács

1. Personal Information

Full Name: Máté Kovács
Job Title: Managing Director
Company / Organization: .bieker kontinental kft. (.bieker)
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/máté-kovács-5712681ba/

2. Professional Background

After completing his architecture studies in 2016, he started his international career in Germany and returned to Budapest in 2021 to found .bieker kontinental Kft. With his team, he planned, among others, a data center campus with seven colocation centre buildings on a campus with 28,400 m² of IT space and 70.4 MW of IT capacity. The team is currently planning a data centre in Frankfurt that not only uses renewable energy but also feeds waste heat into the local heating network. His clients in the data centre industry include investa Real Estate, e-shelter, NTT, Maincubes and nLighten. The project languages are currently German and English – Hungarian would be very welcome.

3. Speaking session details

Session title: Planning a DC, from the Location till Sustainability
Session description: Site selection and location criteria in the Data Center Industry. Essential local and global aspects of colocation operators and hyperscale cloud providers. The role and importance of energy efficiency and renewable energy during the authorization process.