As Senior Vice President of Sales and Leasing, Chris Bair brings over 20 years of experience in the data center sector to Stream Data Centers. With a firm belief in teamwork and a reputation for delivering exceptional results, Chris is directly involved in helping Stream identify and meet the needs of its customers. He is excited to leverage Stream’s unique position as a data center solutions and service provider that also has deep-seated real estate expertise from being a subsidiary of Stream Realty Partners. Most of all, Chris appreciates Stream’s dedication to improving the data center experience through exceptional people and service and feels fortunate to be joining the organization at the same time new hyperscale campuses are opening in Arizona, Chicago and Dallas.
Prior to joining Stream, Chris was one of two data center professionals hired to launch Iron Mountain’s Data Center division and led CoreSite’s leasing team pre- and post-IPO.
A former Pilot and Captain in the United States Air Force, Bair holds a B.S. from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, and a M.S. in Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time outdoors and participating in The 24 Hours of LeMons automobile races, a growing trend in amateur endurance racing across the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Stream’s Chris Bair and Yvonne Deir share their perspectives on data center water use and how to optimize water and energy consumption across the supply chain.
The year was 1993 and I (Chris) was a new Air Force Lieutenant on my first TDY assignment in Egypt.
Ever thought about how much procuring data center space is like competitive motorsports? If your answer to that question is no, then you’re probably like most of the world.
Enterprise and hyperscale requirements
The answer to the question, “Where should this application live?” is always “It depends.
Did you know: Stream delivered a build-to-suit data center in 12 months from groundbreaking to client occupancy. How about this: the 96.
Today, enterprise data center requirements and hyperscale data center requirements are quite similar. But that hasn’t always been the case.
I remember as a kid when retailers offered the “We’ll Pay the Sales Tax” deals on Labor Day. Of course, retailers could offer the same percentage discount in a regular sale – but there was something about getting a sales tax break that motivated my parents to shop that weekend.
If you know me, you know I like it when we can inject a sense of personality into our work-lives and professional relationships. In any business and in data centers in particular, the human connection is paramount.
Finding the Hidden Gem
About 18 months ago, I found myself telling friends and family that I wanted to move on from the data center industry. After watching the development of the industry over the past two decades or more, I was ready to make a change and try something that did not involve leasing data centers.
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented, sustained uptick in connectivity requirements for enterprise, public sector and educational institutions. Inherent characteristics of the multi-tenant data center (MTDC) industry and its customer/service provider ecosystems have proven instrumental in meeting this surge in connectivity requirements.
