Tahir Gok is the MENA Lead Senior Research Analyst at datacenterHawk, where he leads market intelligence and advisory across the Middle East, Türkiye, and selected emerging African markets. He works closely with hyperscalers, operators, developers, sovereign stakeholders, and institutional investors on site selection, market entry strategy, capacity planning, and data centre investment feasibility—grounded in the real-world constraints of land, power, permitting, policy, capital, and delivery timelines.

With over a decade of experience spanning digital infrastructure and corporate real estate, Tahir brings an end-to-end view of the data centre lifecycle, from feasibility and land acquisition through partnerships and scalable platform strategy. He previously held regional leadership roles at Ericsson and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and most recently served as Associate Partner, Data Centres at Knight Frank MENA. Based in Dubai since 2016, he is fluent in English, Arabic, and Turkish, and regularly contributes to regional industry forums and conferences.’