The people and work that built digital infrastructure this year.

On 1 December, Entelligencia Magazine publishes three things: twelve World’s Best lists of ten names, eight Annual Awards with three finalists and one winner each, and Regional Impact, the five people who moved each region furthest this year. Judged the way we write the report: from the record, the people who know the market, and the desk.

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12World’s Best.Twelve lists of ten names across the people and firms the build depends on. Selected, never ranked.See the lists → 8Annual Awards.Eight awards for what was achieved in 2026. Three finalists and one winner in each.See the awards → 5Regional Impact.The five people who moved each region furthest this year, on one page under one heading. No rank shown.See the regions →

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World’s Best.

Recognition for the leaders, advisers and firms carrying the global build. There is no ranking. Ten names in each list, every one carrying the same identity.

Data Centre CEOs.

The chief executives who set the direction of a platform and carried it through the build.

Data Centre CEOs.

Your nomination Why, in a line optional

Digital Infrastructure CFOs.

The finance chiefs who structured the capital behind the build, and kept it standing.

Digital Infrastructure CFOs.

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Data Centre COOs and Operations Leaders.

The operators who turned contracted megawatts into running ones.

Data Centre COOs and Operations Leaders.

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Data Centre Lawyers.

The counsel behind the leases, the power contracts and the permits.

Data Centre Lawyers.

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Digital Infrastructure Consultants.

The advisers clients bring in when the answer has to be right.

Digital Infrastructure Consultants.

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Digital Infrastructure Investors.

The capital that committed early and stayed for the build.

Digital Infrastructure Investors.

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Digital Infrastructure Financing Partners.

The lenders and structurers who made the numbers close.

Digital Infrastructure Financing Partners.

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Infrastructure Pioneers.

The people opening markets and practices that did not exist five years ago.

Infrastructure Pioneers.

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Data Centre Operators.

The platforms delivering capacity customers can actually use.

Data Centre Operators.

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Data Centre Developers.

The developers who secured land, power and permission, and then built.

Data Centre Developers.

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Technical and Engineering Leaders.

The engineers solving density, cooling and power at the limits.

Technical and Engineering Leaders.

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Critical Infrastructure Companies.

The suppliers the whole build depends on.

Critical Infrastructure Companies.

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Annual Awards.

Eight awards for what happened in the year: the deals, projects, energy solutions, reporting and campaigns that moved the market. Each names three finalists and one winner.

Industry Leader of the Year.

The individual whose decisions moved the industry most this year.

Industry Leader of the Year.

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Deal of the Year.

The transaction that changed what the market thought possible.

Deal of the Year.

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Data Centre Project of the Year.

The project that set the standard on delivery, design or speed to power.

Data Centre Project of the Year.

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Energy Achievement of the Year.

The solution that brought power to compute faster, cleaner or more reliably.

Energy Achievement of the Year.

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Community Engagement of the Year.

The project that earned its place in a community. Awarded to the project, so every party on it is named: operator, authority and community.

Community Engagement of the Year.

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Lifetime Contribution Award.

A career that shaped digital infrastructure as it stands today.

Lifetime Contribution Award.

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Digital Infrastructure Journalist of the Year.

The reporting that told the industry something it did not already know.

Digital Infrastructure Journalist of the Year.

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Marketing Campaign of the Year.

The campaign that changed how a company or the industry was seen.

Marketing Campaign of the Year.

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Regional Impact.

The five people whose actions moved their region furthest this year. Operators, investors, ministers and regulators alike, on one page under one heading, with no rank shown.

Latin America.

The five people whose actions moved Latin America furthest this year.

Latin America.

Your nomination Why, in a line optional

North America.

The five people whose actions moved North America furthest this year.

North America.

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Europe and the Middle East.

The five people whose actions moved Europe and the Middle East furthest this year.

Europe and the Middle East.

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Asia Pacific.

The five people whose actions moved Asia Pacific furthest this year.

Asia Pacific.

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Africa.

The five people whose actions moved Africa furthest this year.

Africa.

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Judged like the report.

The same discipline behind The Next Hotspot and Entelligencia Weekly. Every shortlist is grounded in the record, tested with the people who know the market, and decided by the desk.

The record

Filings, contracts, energisations, financings and on-record statements from the year, graded the way the report grades every claim.

The vote

Nominations from operators, investors, advisers and engineers across the markets we cover, including the report’s contributors.

The desk

The Entelligencia desk reads the record and the vote together, sets the shortlists and makes the final selection.

Partnership and sponsorship carry no influence over selection. No one can buy a place on a shortlist.

NominationsOpen now, on this page

ResearchThe record, market by market

ShortlistFinalists named in Entelligencia Weekly

SelectionThe desk decides

ResultsEntelligencia Magazine, 1 December

Presenting partners.

One presenting partner per category, and one per region. Partners are recognised everywhere the award travels, and have no role in selection.

In the editionYour name on the category page of the annual magazine, and on the winner announcement inside it.

On the identities“Presented by” on the finalist and winner identities the recipients publish.

On the siteThe category page on entelligencia.report, live through 2027, and the newsletter that announces it.

In the announcementsThe LinkedIn posts and the Tuesday newsletter that carry the results to the whole readership.

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Every name on a list, every finalist and every winner receives its identity to use, so your name travels with theirs.