Cloud2Ground is a strategy and execution advisory firm supporting data center and AI infrastructure platforms from early concept through execution-ready outcomes. We operate at the intersection of capital, land, power, and execution, focusing on the decisions that determine bankability, scalability, and institutional viability.
We engage where direction, positioning, and sequencing most directly determine outcomes. Our role is to define strategic framing, underwrite critical assumptions, align stakeholders, and govern execution pathways.
Outcomes are determined long before construction begins. We ensure strategies are grounded in what can actually be built, financed, and operated at scale.
We engage where value is created or lost, before capital is committed and execution risk is locked in.
We design strategy, set governance, and retain accountability while working alongside best-in-class partners.
Clear roles, disciplined partner selection, and execution readiness grounded in power and commercial reality.
Cloud2Ground works in collaboration with Structure Research, a global digital infrastructure market intelligence firm. Together we combine market insight with real-world operator experience to help investors, developers, and infrastructure platforms evaluate, position, and execute digital infrastructure projects with greater commercial clarity.
Structure ResearchDelivers independent, globally recognised market intelligence including demand validation, capacity modeling, competitive benchmarking, and regional infrastructure analysis.
Cloud2GroundApplies senior operator experience across hyperscale development, commercialisation, and global expansion to translate intelligence into executable experience-based strategies.
The core value of the Cloud2Ground and Structure Research joint collaboration is the combination of rigorous, independent market intelligence with firsthand experience leading commercialisation and growth strategies for data centre platforms globally. The result is not just insight into where to build, but a clear pathway for how to compete, monetise, and scale in the hyperscale and AI infrastructure era.
Hadassa Lutz has over 20 years of experience bridging technology with business solutions, specializing in data center expansion, energy infrastructure, and commercialization strategies. She played a key role in CyrusOne's growth from a family-owned business to IPO, focusing on large-scale, sector-driven deals before leading enterprise teams in building and executing go-to-market strategies for technology-driven solutions companies.
Jeff Ferry brings a wealth of experience in financial strategy, investment, and digital infrastructure development to Cloud2Ground's Financial Consulting division. His strategic vision and extensive background in finance and digital infrastructure uniquely position him to guide clients through complex financial landscapes, ensuring their projects are both viable and profitable.
Todd M. Smith has nearly 20 years of experience specializing in the data center colocation, cloud, advanced connectivity and technology real estate arenas. Starting in 2007, Todd played a key role in CyrusOne's growth from a private equity held company with a few Texas based assets to a public company with a multi-national data center platform.
Dottie Spruce has 35 years in sales management with the last 20 years specializing in the hyperscale market within the data center industry. She played a strategic role at both CyrusOne and Iron Mountain Data Centers by leading all sales efforts to obtain, maintain and grow hyperscale customers.
As AI infrastructure development accelerates globally, the most valuable opportunities are increasingly defined by one simple reality: the best sites and capacity opportunities are rarely listed or visible through traditional market channels.
To address this, Cloud2Ground created the Truffle Hunters team — a specialized group focused on uncovering high-potential infrastructure opportunities and tracking real market supply across powered land and colocation capacity.
Much like their culinary namesake, the role of the Truffle Hunters is to search where others are not looking. Their work combines field research, market intelligence, and relationship-driven discovery to identify sites with available power, proximity to fiber routes, repurposable industrial infrastructure, or strategic geographic positioning for AI and digital infrastructure deployment.
In addition to site discovery, the team plays a key role in colocation market intelligence, continuously monitoring provider capacity, expansion paths, and emerging supply constraints across key markets.
By combining field discovery with real-time supply intelligence, Cloud2Ground is able to surface opportunities earlier in the development cycle and provide partners with a clearer view of both where infrastructure can be built and where capacity already exists.
Operational specialists supporting Cloud2Ground’s advisory platform across site intelligence, market discovery, and colocation supply visibility.
Focused on identifying powered land, industrial assets, and development-ready properties capable of supporting large-scale digital infrastructure. Also supports colocation market assessments by tracking available capacity, expansion paths, and provider inventory across key markets.
Works on identifying properties with strategic access to power and fiber while supporting early-stage site qualification. Contributes to colocation market intelligence by monitoring capacity availability, provider expansion activity, and emerging supply constraints.
Evaluates land opportunities, infrastructure access, and redevelopment potential for digital infrastructure projects. Supports Cloud2Ground's colocation tracking efforts by assessing market capacity, facility positioning, and potential sites for repositioning or expansion.
Supports local stakeholder engagement, community impact alignment, and regulatory awareness across potential project locations. Contributes to market assessments by tracking regional development conditions that influence colocation capacity deployment and infrastructure approvals.
