 Aloha and welcome back to JSA TV live from PTC 23. We're here live today from PTC 23. It's our final day and joining me is Sujit Panda. He is the CTIO of BDX. Sujit, welcome back to JSA TV. Thank you Buffy and thank you for having me here. It's always been a pleasure talking to you guys. This session of PTC has been really great. I'm coming here after a span of two years. The last one was virtual and I was then unfortunately down with COVID. So it feels great to be in the place back again. It does. It feels great. I mean this has been the biggest PTC conference to date. So the floor was buzzing all week long. We're here at our final day. Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to the sun here in Sunny Honolulu. But let's talk a little bit more about BDX. So such amazing accomplishments this past year for BDX and one of the fastest growing data centers across Asia's Pacific region. So why don't you give us a little bit more insight into all of those accomplishments including a massive launch into Indonesia? Yeah. So we don't call ourselves a data center platform. We call ourselves as the digital delivery platform. What it means for us is that we look at providing the entire ecosystem to our customers. And this is something that's a solution that we kind of package and deliver it in a manner that whether it's a hyperscalar or an enterprise, they get all of it that the need for digital transformation in one go. So it's been great as we kind of looked at the market and tried to look at how do we solve customer problems. We always look at the customer's perspective. Indonesia obviously has been a great achievement for the team. The way we went around on the integration and getting our partnerships up and running. In a record time I think it's been barely six to seven months since this happened. And we have already broken ground on the new facility that we're building. There's a press release that we've already done with it. The other piece has been that we have been able to kind of get the standard BDX stacks implemented across the four data centers that we've taken over. Automation, if I look at the BDX platform, automation is the hallmark of what we do. And we've nearly reached around 80% of that in the new data centers that we've integrated into the platform. So it's been great here. And you're not resting on that. You're very agile. As we get into the next new markets and we'll talk about the next couple of weeks or so, we'll keep hearing from us. The idea is that the ability for BDX to get into these markets and then get our customers into the same set of standardized platform experience has been the hallmark of what we've done. And this year we have actually taken it a step further in Indonesia. Thank you so much for being there and helping us get there. I personally have been there through it all right from the very beginning. So it's been exciting and we're so happy to have been there with you. So you also represent some other markets, right? So you have a strong presence in other markets, Singapore, Hong Kong, China. Singapore, Hong Kong, China. We are apart from Indonesia. We are also looking at a couple of more markets in Southeast Asia. And we're wanting to also grow beyond Southeast Asia. So that is, at the end of the day, what do we want to do? We've got these large customers and it is a sense of pride that we have in terms of the way our customers are pushing us to get to the new markets, to get the same experience of the digital delivery platforms in the new market. So we will hear from us over the next 8 to 10 weeks in terms of how we get to new markets and how our customers follow us into these markets. So that's been a great experience and you're always the one who know before us in terms of what's happening. So looking forward. Yes, of course, we're looking forward to it as well. So let's talk a little bit more about another pillar for BDX and that is carbon reduction and sustainability. So I know that is at the heart of BDX. So why don't you dive right into exactly what you're doing to reduce carbon emissions and how that all ties into automation and the BDX platform as a whole? So sustainability is, I look at ESG as the central theme of what we stand for. The decarbonization piece is one part of it, a very important part of it. We want to ensure that we contribute to the community, we contribute to the environment and in terms of what we have actually done is that we have reduced about our carbon footprint by around 23%. And look at it from a perspective that in all the markets that we operate, green energy is not something easy to come by and we still have been able to reduce our carbon footprint. The other thing that we've done is we have been able to use our own intellectual property to look at scope three and get to our partners and help them decarbonize their own carbon footprint. And this collaborative approach is what we need to see in the industry. This is what we call as an ecosystem approach for getting each and every partner who works with us to also contribute towards the decarbonization initiative and we'll see more of that coming through. And the other piece has been that energy efficiency. So the energy efficiency piece, if you look at it, we operate when we look at partnerships in new regions, when we look at adding more sites to a footprint, plugging in more partner data centers into our footprint, at that point of time, we have been able to go below the design PUEs and that is happening because of our automation focus on the focus of how we will transform energy efficiency. So that is something that is close to our heart and we've seen that from an energy efficiency perspective in terms of our kilowatt hours for the same amount of IT workload, we have been able to decrease it by approximately 17 percent and we will continue the journey going forward. So that's going to stay with us over the next year and this 70 percent should be pushing very hard to go beyond 20 percent. That's impressive for sure. And I'm here in my green. We just launched the greener data directory as part of our greener data movement, which we're so honored to have BDX in our greener data directory and as a part of our movement. So thank you so much, Sujit, for your commitment to greener data and for making the world truly a better place through all these initiatives and innovations that BDX is doing. So such an honor to be talking to you. And as a thought leader in our industry, I mean, what trends do you see impacting APAC throughout the next year? You know, I've always believed that my colleagues in the industry, our industry as a whole is, you know, a lot of the, I keep hearing every market that I get to is that data centers use a lot of power. And I believe that's a fallacy. You need to look at what data centers drive, they drive digital. And when you look at energy efficiency, when you look at green, how are you going to deliver that without digital? If I take out digital, then I see a huge amount of the carbon intensity to go up substantially. I don't know how to calculate a number, but digital is what is driving the carbonization. And to say that the data centers, which actually are the engines for digital, are the reasons for power consumption is, I think it's a fallacy. You're looking at a fall guy. And the industry realizes that they are not the fall guy. So that's one. The second piece is in terms of when you look at power consumption. I mean, if I want to be transforming a country, a region, a city, a community, and want to digital, digitize them or look at digital transformation, you cannot do that without data centers. And the only way that a data center can become green is to get green power. Yes, we drive energy efficiency. We are doing everything within our means to become much more energy efficient, whether it is looking at automation, whether it's looking at better battery technology, whether it is using as much solar as we can use on the rooftops or any other place, whether it's looking at water usage efficiency, we're doing that. So I don't see the notion that, hey, you know what, I will give you a green rating, for example, that has been initiated. I wouldn't say that, but by and large, the public, the governments are not looking at the efforts that the industry has put out. So that is one piece that I'm really worried about. That is one trend. The second piece is, what are we doing from a technology perspective? I believe sustainability and automation are going hand in hand. And I see a lot of strides being done in terms of how AI can transform. And we're putting a lot of efforts in our discussions with all the governments in all the regions that we're operating to ensure that we take these AI technologies, the intellectual property that we have built, and that is what we're using in our data centers and give it back to the community. So that's something that we're doing. I will continue seeing that happening, and I will continue seeing my peers in the industry, my friends in the industry to kind of espouse what I'm talking about. The third piece is EDGE. I think EDGE is going to transform. There's lately been a little bit of a shake-up in the tech industry. We all know what's happening. The big names have actually gone through a little bit of a turbulence, but I think it is only near term. You were just talking about this the other day. It's going to bounce back. It will bounce back. It will bounce back and be much more stronger because digital transformation is not going to slow down. The move to the cloud is not going to slow down. The move for the AR, VR, and how we engage, and those use cases are not going to go away. 5G is real. And the take-up is going to be kind of massive in APAC. So I see EDGE will grain a lot of ground, and I see that EDGE deployments to actually grow, and there will be a redefinition of what we call as EDGE. It's not going to be, oh, you know what? I kind of compress a data center, and that becomes an EDGE. The smaller data center is an EDGE. That is going to change, and a lot of this will get reflected in how the tech industry will bounce back and how the tech industry will kind of re-transform itself in terms of how they want to leverage the EDGE. So I see that happening very, very powerfully over the next 12 to 18 months at the max. Well, thank you for those great insights, Sujit. Thank you. We really do appreciate it. Is there anything else that you'd like to add today? No, I think it's been a great year. I just wish all the viewers a happy Chinese New Year, just approaching it, and I wish all the viewers to kind of participate in all the sustainable effort set as an industry we are doing. Please keep giving us feedback. Keep giving us your thought processes in terms of how do we become more green, and that's about it. And follow hashtag greener data. Yeah. Greener data directory. Thank you so much, Sujit, for joining us today here from PTC 23 and happy networking, and thank you viewers again for tuning in to another fabulous episode of JSA TV Live from PTC 23. Maloha. Thank you, Buffy. Thank you for having us. This last slide here is a little complicated, but let me... So who is the largest customer base, the content owners, so to speak, who are trying to reach consumers like you and I? The largest customers are the governments in a country. The largest customers are content owners like Google, YouTube, Amazon, Grab, for example. And what none of us like as consumers, what you and I would never like is that we are not able to search on Google, for example. Or if you're looking up something, for example, your digital records with the government, what you do not want is that you are not able to access the service. To take that problem out of the way, content owners want to have their data stored in multiple locations. It is replicated. It is the same set of data stored in three locations. And one such combination of three locations is called an availability zone. What is extremely exciting about this partnership is that with the three data centers that you see on the left and the fourth one on the extreme right, the existing assets which Indosat and Lintasata are operating, the three data centers on the left, the one on the right existing asset, the two that you see in the middle are the green fields that are going to be built by us, the BDX Indonesia entity. With this, you not only give customers one availability zone, three different locations, but you're actually giving the customers a second availability zone and a third availability zone. Three availability zones by a single provider in a country is, of course, it's happening for the first time in Indonesia. And I can assure you, it's not going to happen for a long time in Indonesia. And this has been made possible. This has been made possible because of the partnership. So, unparalleled infrastructure for Indonesia's digital transformation journey is what BDX Indonesia promises to deliver. Thank you so much.