 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Oktahia of JSA. And joining me here today in Honolulu at PTC 2018, my two friends, we have Mr. Warren Harris. He is the director of economic development of the city of Virginia Beach. Welcome, Warren. Thank you so much. And we are also joined by Gregory Twitt, the CEO of Global Links data centers. Thanks, Jamie. Nice to have you guys with us. And I have to say, my Virginia pride is shining right now. Virginia Beach is often in the headlines here in telecom news. And why don't you give us a little bit of more background there, Warren? Sure. Thank you, Jamie. Virginia Beach is very excited about the opportunity of new technology coming to our shores, as many of those that are in the tech world know the Marea cable, a partnership between Microsoft, Facebook, and Telseus, along with Brusa, are the two newest subsea cables that are coming to the shores of the United States. First time that the cables have come into the mid-Atlantic region of the East Coast. And we're very fortunate that the decision was made for them to come into the shores of Virginia Beach. So it's really going to change and diversify our ecosystem with regards to technology advancement and opportunities for investment and job creation. And so it's our duty now as members of our community to support this effort and to put Virginia Beach in the favorable light for additional investment. And that European and South American activity really brings a wonderful economics and marketplace to Virginia and beyond. Yeah, without question. I mean, the Marea cable, of course, connects Virginia Beach to Europe via Bilbao Spain. The Brusa cable connects Virginia Beach, ultimately through Puerto Rico, Fortaleza, Brazil, and ultimately down to Rio de Janeiro. So it's opening up Virginia Beach to be what we're referring to now as a digital gateway, a port of entry, if you will. In this case, though, the commodity that's coming through Virginia Beach is information and technology. So it's an exciting opportunity for some transformational unique situations for us in Virginia Beach. We're really excited to call Virginia our home for sure. And this actually is a wonderful transition over to global links data centers. We hear you have some exciting news that's hitting the PTC floor. Can you tell us a little bit more? Yes, we're about to build a carrier neutral Colo hotel. And it's in three different phases. What can we expect from phase one? Correct. Well, firstly, global links has acquired over 20 acres of comprising of two parcels, 10 acres. The other property is 11 and 1 half acres. And we're developing that property. We've got 10,000 square feet that we're doing phase one, which is a carrier neutral facility. The main aim of that is we need something to kick off the whole development and hook into the Telsius subsea cables. We're about 600 yards from Telsius and their property. So we're in nice proximity as far as that's concerned. And we have the existing building that we're going to retrofit. So we'll be up and running with that probably six to nine months. The second phase is 25,000 square feet, which will back up the first 10,000 square foot phase. The co-location of that site is important. The last phase is 115,000 square feet. Now, sorry. What I'm really enjoying too is the carrier neutral approach that you're taking. Can you tell some of the network operators that would be attracted to your facilities? Well, I think that in terms of companies that there's Loomis, there's Cox, any number of those carriers would be interested in what we're doing. And obviously, we're talking to a lot of them at the moment. We're also interested in talking to anyone that might want to bring some additional subsea cables into that area because I think our facility is well positioned to do something outside of what Telsius is doing, of course. And that's another opportunity that we're looking at. And for sure, we're seeing that those content players are driving such high demands on that transatlantic bandwidth consumption needs and getting right into the act of building that necessary infrastructure and helping out those subsea cable builds. So really interesting time. It is. And really, you need for Virginia Beach. And we have been really strong supporters of this new industry and this new technology and have set up opportunities where there are incentives, of course, for companies that are looking to gain access into our facilities. And so the unique thing that we, as a city, and why we're here, we just think it's quite natural for us to be a partner with the private investment to make it a real doable situation. So it's an exciting opportunity for us to be here. So for our viewers out there, many of them carriers and content players, where can they go to get more information about GlobalInx? We have a website, globalinxdatacenters.com. GlobalInxdatacenters.com. And for more information on the amazing Virginia Beach Town, where can they go? That's very easy. Just dial yes, virginiabeach.com. Love that. All right, right here from PTC. Back to our viewers back home. Thanks for watching JSA TV.