 Welcome to JSA TV Live, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Dean Perine at JSA, and we are coming to you live from Metro Connect 2023 in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and this is the wrap-up of day one interviews live on-site. I'm here with my lovely colleague, Nikki. Nikki, how's it going? It's great. It's been a wonderful first day at Metro Connect. This is my first one, but it has been an awesome first day, and I'm looking forward to day two. As am I, but let's go ahead and recap day one. A couple of things from my notes from Powerhouse Data. They are in the middle of building and planning a six-data center expansion in Northern Virginia, right there at the big hub there in Northern Virginia. So that's a big takeaway from Powerhouse Data Centers. How about you? What do you think? I think also, so much growth going on with them, and they also are sponsoring or putting on a 5K, which is also very excited and community-oriented, and we'd love to hear that from our clients. So that's also some exciting news that they have going on. Yeah, so congratulations to Powerhouse Data on that expansion and the 5K, so very, very cool. Something, okay, we spoke with Phillip Marangella at Edge Connects. They have always got a lot going on there. Phillip was quick to go to the pillars. The customers, people and planet, you take care of those things and everything follows suit, and clearly it is as one of the, if not the largest private data center in the world right now. So other thoughts on Phillip? Yeah, he also shared with us some of his opinions about upcoming trends, who specifically AI, and also just a continued emphasis on cloud, which is always interesting to hear from such an expert in the field about what we can all be on the lookout for for the next year. Yeah, yeah, and Phillip is always, and obviously we started with a big win, a big D and I win for Phillip. Yeah, yeah, the award-winning Phillip, very cool. So the other thing, I had a great pre-conversation and post-conversation and existing conversation with Jim Bowie, the president and CEO of Involta, specifically the one thing that Jim brought forward, I'd never heard this before, was a tiered disaster recovery as a service solution. And he rightfully said, you know, people don't even think necessarily about DR until there is a actual disaster. And so as a way to kind of bring people current and potential customers along, they're offering this tiered disaster recovery as a service, which to me made a whole lot of sense. Yeah, and so interesting, you know, so many times we're thinking about like what's coming next and growth and expansion and we don't always wanna spend time thinking about like disaster and stuff like that, but they seem to have like- You don't wanna spend time thinking about disasters? No, no I don't, and so, but it's really, I mean, just like what they're doing and their approach to just, you know, the solutions is incredible. Yeah, no, I agree. And again, I think that speaking with Jim, specifically about the edge and cloud as it relates to their impact on the verticals that they serve healthcare, fintech and things like that, really, really engaging conversation. So thanks to Jim for being here. Maybe my favorite interview of the day was getting to talk about Juliana DiAngelo's hire by XKL as their chief financial and administrative officer. She had served as a consultant with them just a year ago and they were so impressed by her that they ended up hiring her as the chief financial officer. Pretty impressive stuff there. Yeah, she seems like a great addition to like a well-established team. So I think it's only gonna be great things to come. And she actually teased a little bit saying that we should all plug in to their LinkedIn profile because they have some new announcements. Dean tried to dig and get a little bit of it. She wasn't biting. But she was not biting at all. So we should all just kind of plug into her page and the company's page to learn more about what they have coming up. Yeah, yeah. And the name again is Juliana DiAngelo, chief financial and administrative officer at XKL. Good things happening there at XKL. That was a no show. So we'll have to get them tomorrow. And then I think the last one we had today was with Mr, that's right, Mr. Ken Parent. Ken is the CEO of Element Critical. So the big things going on over at Element Critical is all about growth. And I think that's a lot. We're seeing a lot of growth stories in the industry right now, specific to data centers, edge data centers and making sure that they are meeting kind of the data needs of the digitally transformed world. Yes, exactly. He had a very big emphasis on growth and mergers and acquisition. So I think that we can only expect good things to come for them as well for the coming year. Yeah, absolutely. And Nikki, it has been a lot of fun working with you today. Yes, I agree. Yeah, so thank you very much. And thank you viewers for tuning in to day one of Metro Connect 2023 in Fort Lauderdale. We will see you. That's the cumulus. Oh, that's right. Cumulus data is sponsoring the Welcome Beachside BBQ tonight at Metro Connect. So please join us there. Come say hello. Come network. Mingo with people that you haven't been able to see a beach, a barbecue, and people you haven't seen in a couple of years. All the good stuff. All of the great stuff. Speaking of great stuff, we will be right back here tomorrow doing all of this again. We will have a recap for you at the end of the day. And I think that's a wrap for day one. That's a wrap. Bye, everybody. All right, happy networking.