Peter was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Datacloud EMEA Congress in 2018 in Monaco for “outstanding achievement spanning one’s entire career”. This followed the founding of one of Europe’s first datacenter construction firms in the 1990’s; in founding the company which developed the first water-cooled rack for high-density servers which was sold to APC in 2003 and which led to APC’s development of In-Row cooling and Containment which dominated the datacenter market in the 2000’s; the founding of Datacenter People, the first global recruitment firm dedicated to the datacenter sector in 2010; and in 2018 the founding of Portman Partners to help firms in the digital infrastructure space to find leadership talent around the world. His latest venture, EdgeNebula, which is using redundant real estate and stranded power to create a network of distributed cloud and AI datacenters, was founded in May 2024.