‘I launched my company before AI was sexy – theatre school helped me’
Mahdi Yahya pitched to hundreds of investors with his early AI venture. Mahdi Yahya’s fascination with data centres began as a child. His father worked in telecoms and took him to facilities where he first remembers the “smells, sounds, the noise and being extremely cold”. Yahya’s London-based firm, Ori Industries, has since proved to be…