 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell, coming to you today from Monaco, where we're together in person at DataCloud 2022. And joining me is Patrick Giangrosso, vice president of MCFI. Could you tell us a little bit for our viewers who may not know? I mean, I'm sure they all do by now, but for any who may not, can you tell us a little bit about MCFI? Thank you. So MCFI is an organization based in Austin, Texas, specializes in data center retrofits, data center upgrades, but recently been doing a lot more in the data center space with turnkey solutions, easily deployable containerized data centers, high density data centers, and then around pre-engineered, pre-designed data centers with low cost of deployment around 8 million a megawatt and can be deployed in a significantly shorter period of time than most data centers. So for people who are really just trying to get to market quickly with a small footprint. And so you mentioned deployments. I think you've had a lot of news this year already on some of your advancements and announcements and deployments. Tell us a little bit to give us the highlight reel if you can. Yeah. So one of the deployments we've just recently announced was with BBT in Midland, Texas. It's our genius design, small footprints of half megawatt data center. They can expand it to a megawatt over time. And it's really for their clients in the Permian Basin that are looking to measure, monitor, and control their energy deployments throughout the Permian Basin. So that's one of them. Another one is yet to be announced, but it's with a client that who's doing file coins sort of applications, Bitcoin mining, and it's high density in a container, 500 kilowatts in a 58 foot container that can be deployed in 20 weeks. So from the point of go to the point it's going to be deployed, it's in 20 weeks ready to go out in the middle of nowhere. Impressive. And also I see something in your hand. Do you want to tell us about that at all? I think that you are now a best selling author contributor to the greener data. It launched on Earth Day just less than a week ago. It's already a best selling book for our industry. And we're quite proud of all the great thoughts in it. And a large part of that is some of what MCFI contributed to this. Can you talk about that? Yeah. So number one, thank you, JSA for really pulling everybody together and getting this done. I think five months and it was from get go to publish to a really good idea, really good concept. I think I'm chapter five. My English teachers are all on the ground, didn't realize I could write as well as I do. But yeah, I'm really excited about it. And it's the whole idea around the sustainability and measuring and monitoring and a way to really report on sustainability and how we're not there yet. But I think with the announcement of I-Masons and a few other people we're getting to where we can measure, monitor carbon output and really be common around what we're talking about and have a goal to reach. And I think that was a key part of this. It makes that it'll help grow sustainability and grow carbon reduction. MCFI has really kind of tried to do that from their concepts with our microgenius solution, which is a solar-based microgrid that uses solar as the primary energy source. Lithium ion for right through at night and then fuel cells for when the sun is not there and you're right out of the energy on the batteries. So a very sustainable solution. You can use green hydrogen if you can find it. Otherwise you start with something a little something else for hydrogen back up and alternatively move into green hydrogen at a later time. So great to have you contributing to that and I agree it is you know there's a lot of energy around that at this conference right? It's nice that this lunch just in time for data cloud and it's been such a big part of the conversation here this week and it's so great that you're a part of that. So you know thank you for the work that you do there. Anything else you want us to keep our eyes out for with MCFI as you know the year progresses? Yeah I think you're going to start seeing more of I wouldn't have said this a year ago but the containerized data center and really driving density and energy efficiency I think you're going to see more of and I think this idea around being able to deliver a data center quickly in smaller footprints is something that's really coming. You still have the cloud guys building big but it's coming with AI and machine learning at a lower level and I think what we're doing there is really going to help drive the industry forward. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining us today. It's nice to see you again. I mean we saw each other a couple of months ago at PTC but it's nice to see each other again. I know they've been we've been pretty fortunate but yeah yeah so thank you thank you very much and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcasts. Happy networking.