An Open Letter from the Stream Data Centers Leadership Team
A 25th anniversary is a landmark for any business. A lot has changed in 25 years, particularly for a business that supports the most innovative and fast-growing companies in the world.
While the market and the needs of our customers have changed over the last two and a half decades, the values that drive everything we do at Stream remain the same. In fact, we are sure that commitment to our values is the key to our success – as well as our customers’ happiness.
Our customers are our business.
As a company, Stream is committed to our mission of being the trusted and enduring partner for our customers’ evolving data center needs. To be trusted, we must first be competent. The skillsets and experiences of our collective team, our data center design standards, and our data center operations practices all provide our customers assurance of success. To be enduring, we must further develop trust by committing to honest, open and transparent engagement so there are no surprises throughout the customer lifecycle.
We invest in and empower great people to collaborate with our customers and communities.
As enterprise and hyperscale needs converged, we were fortunate to attract the attention of individuals interested in joining Stream from highly-regulated global enterprise companies like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google. As direct liquid cooling became a challenge our customers were facing, we got ahead of the game by hiring individuals with deep mission-critical mechanical systems design experience. As land and utility constraints became a key driver for delivery, we were fortunate to attract an outstanding team of site selection professionals from multiple hyperscale providers who have used their experience and deep understanding of scale campus development to deliver capacity while avoiding costly delays.
We develop and operate safe, secure, reliable and sustainable data centers.
For example, when rapidly accelerating demand for data centers amid post-COVID supply chain constraints, we refined our design and construction standards to dramatically speed up development and delivery. As AI deployments demanded ever-higher densities and our clients needed a pathway to direct liquid cooling, Stream developed an integrated solution for both air and liquid cooling that reduces risk and decreases costs for our customers. During a spate of massive storms, our energy procurement team proactively helped customers avoid exorbitant power bills. To ensure we are good neighbors in the communities we operate and to help our customers meet their water-use goals to their sustainability plans, we leveraged closed-loop chillers to minimize our water usage.
Our values are critical to our success.
While our service delivery has changed, our values remain the same as they were in 1999. For Stream, our values are who we are versus an image we try to share over social media and the website. We have remained steadfastly committed to these values by being:
- Honest – We conduct ourselves ethically, transparently, and with integrity.
- Nice – We treat everyone with kindness and respect and encourage diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
- Smart – We value creativity, innovation, and the importance of listening and collaboration.
- Passionate – We are deeply committed to supporting each other and delivering exceptional results to our customers.
Ultimately, it’s not our nifty direct liquid cooling solution in our AI-ReadyTM facilities that make Stream the trusted and enduring partner for the largest and most sophisticated companies in the world — it’s our commitment to living our values at all times.
As we celebrate our 25th year, we are incredibly grateful for our past success, to our customers and our communities for trusting us, and to our team for making the procurement, deployment and operation of data center capacity a great experience.
With gratitude,
