Alexey Gubarev
(He/Him)
Limassol
As seen in:
Authority Magazine,
Medium,
International Business Times (U.S.),
International Business Times (U.K.),
Tech Times,
Times of Malta,
Cyprus Mail,
Tucson Weekly,
TechBullion,
The European Business Review
and
Covers:
AI and cloud infrastructure, data centres, startups and venture investing, consumer health technology, Cyprus as a technology hub
Doesn't Cover:
Politics
Tech entrepreneur & investor. Co-founder Servers.com & Palta.
Interview
How is social media changing news?
It removed the distance between a primary source and the reader: a founder or an engineer can publish a dataset directly. The cost is that speed beats verification. I try to use it for the first thing and not the second — a number, a source, a chart.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
I'm not a reporter and don't take story pitches. If you have original data on AI infrastructure, data centres, consumer health or the Cyprus tech sector, one paragraph and a link by email is enough.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
A spreadsheet before a sentence. Public data — Eurostat, the KPMG study of the Cyprus tech sector, DCD and Uptime for data-centre costs — plus my own operating numbers from Servers.com and Palta, and many others.
What's your favorite social network?
LinkedIn.
Who do you wish followed you?
The people who run power grids, build data centres and are interested in where AI is going.
Why did you become a journalist?
I didn't, and I don't call myself one. I spent twenty years building infrastructure and consumer-tech companies, and at some point the data I was sitting on — what a megawatt costs, what a data centre takes to build, what turned Cyprus from a quiet island into a tech hub — seemed more useful in public than in a boardroom. I write to put numbers into conversations that usually run on opinions.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The Cyprus Mail piece on why the next decade of AI is a physics problem. It took an argument I had been making privately for years — compute is limited by power, land and permits, not by code — and put it in front of the people who set policy here.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Learn to read a balance sheet and a power bill. Most technology stories are economics stories in disguise, and the reporter who can do the arithmetic finds what the others miss.
When's the best time to pitch you?
There is no good time, because I'm not a reporter and don't take story pitches. If you have original data on AI infrastructure, data centres, consumer health or the Cyprus tech sector, one paragraph and a link by email is enough — any time.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In a car, preferably an old one, preferably off-road. My wife and I founded MadWay Rally and spend part of every year driving somewhere with no network coverage. Otherwise in Limassol, by the sea, with the family.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The Economist for the world, Cyprus Mail and CBN for the island, Data Center Dynamics for my industry. And museum catalogues: I collect cars and am building a retro-car museum in Bishkek, so I read how other collections tell a story.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That AI is a software story. The binding constraints now are electricity, cooling, steel and permitting time. The second one is about Cyprus: people still picture a tax base, when technology is 16% of GDP with the fastest ICT growth in the EU.
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