Mai Barakat is an analyst on the 451 Research Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team at S&P Global Commodity Insights. Her research focuses on datacenter market activity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Her key research areas include emerging datacenter markets; retail, wholesale and cloud provider activity; industry growth projections; market share analysis; government incentives and regulations; and pricing dynamics. Before joining the Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team in 2020, her focus was on mobile telecommunications and 5G in Europe. Prior to that she spent more than 10 years at Omdia covering mobile/fixed telecommunications and TV in the Middle East and Africa, with a special focus on mobile banking and fintech initiatives in emerging markets.