 Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you today as we're winding down day three of Data Cloud Global Congress here in beautiful Monaco and Joining me is Steve Scott CEO of data like precision installations. Thank you for joining us Yeah, how's the week been for you? So it's been it's been very good. It's been exciting Conference now I've been here for just two and a half days and but it's been as usual packed I like this conference most of because the it attracts the right kind of audience and and the content of the events is generally very good Yeah, so for viewers who may not know, can you tell us just a little bit about data like so data like is a Data center construction company. We also provide services We're really in the build space of this of the two to ten megawatt type data center size in terms of the company were 120 million pounds of revenue and about 200 employees We are by the way, we're also pan European. We operate in 13 countries Okay, great, and I understand you you've had recent news around your launch of your on-site powder coating facility I think that's an important one to cover today So it was about a year to deploy that but a little over a year ago We considered the investment in a powder coating plant. We have a construction facility Where we build hot and cold our containment and caging solutions for data centers and every component is powder coated previously we would export it to to local powder coating specialists and then bring back into the Into our plant again and deploy it to our client base, but there was a sustainability in a carbon Footprint we had to consider there and and also there was a subject matter really around Quality and we felt that we could do a better job ourselves So we've got a we've managed to compress somewhat the time to market we've managed to improve on our quality a great deal and And we had the space to to fit in so it actually has been a great project And it is working as we speak today It's working flat out great, and I understand yesterday you you participated in the conference by speaking on a panel I think the topic was surrounding edge And you know, I believe you have probably a lot to say on that topic. Yeah, so You know edge data centers. We've been talking about this now for several years and there's been an awful lot of Discussion from time to time of what people's opinion of the edge is and I think finally we are we're getting there but the and I was with a number of Guys in the industry who I've known well for an awful long time who themselves had well established opinions about it However, I think that for me the edge of the network We have to consider it as being not just simply the physical edge of the network where the Optics stop we've got to think about it as being the economic edge as we reach into new geographies that previously Have been economically not able to withstand the investment required to build data centers and digital infrastructure and separately but very importantly is the Is the application edge as we look at distributed cloud type products across larger geographies we need those those giant Cloud providers to develop applications that rely on Deploying edge type capacity and it's that distribution that is driving the the the build out in tier two and tier three cities and geographies generally And the last Sort of big topic. I want to touch on briefly is just around sustainability I mean, it's such an important thing for everyone across our industries talking about the role that that we play in in this Can you make it? Can you comment on that? Yeah, sure. So So sustainability everything around ESG and CSG is becoming a paramount to almost everything that we do as an industry but not not just our industry, but you know what more widespread across commerce and We're seeing now because of the level of responsibility and the anticipated Regulatory framework that's going to surround it that the when we're bidding for contracts the the ESG scoring is Said at a far higher level than previously it ever was So now you're far more likely to be disqualified as a consequence of an ESG score Then you will be for a price score the And I think there are there are a number of things that are driving this Ironically technology is making available more data as it is as it relates to To carbon footprint and these very very big Clients enterprise or cloud-based clients. They can now Ask for provenance, and I think that's the important word for every component its entire Life-cycle cradle to grave Footprint carbon footprint and they can reasonably expect to have that because that data is made available Through our supply chain and she would have made available through us So you can now argue honestly and competently far better the carbon impact of building and operating a data center for example where in the past it was It was Maximated far far too greatly so that Exactness I think is going to be required at a regulatory level and certainly now already required at a contracting level Yeah, sir. Yeah great points, and I think that you know for a lot of our viewers I think that They would love to connect with you likely to continue some of the ideas the thoughts that you've presented here But also connect with data like so how can how can we do that? How can people find you find your company? We don't hide at all. You can easily find us You can certainly easily find me. We're we're based out of the head office in the UK a day like we're a business That's been around for the last 10 years. We've enjoyed Extraordinary growth that growth born out of I think we're very good at what we do But also as data centers get bigger and bigger the huge general contractors Racing after the very big 51 HM 100 megawatt type facilities and in the vacuum they leave behind we can move and Compete well, so I think that we're going to be in this space here Pan-European and in the Middle East for a long time to come We'd like to develop more annuity based products more in the way of managed services, and I think that's a that's work in progress for us, but it's It's a it's a great space, but I've been in data centers for 25 years and And I'm learning something every day. Yeah Fantastic. Thank you, and thank you for sharing with us some of your insights So we can all learn as well along with you. Thank you and thank you for your time today We we greatly appreciate it. We know it's a it's a busy week So thank you for sharing this time with us and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV live today on day 3 of data cloud Global Congress here in Monaco Join us for our next interview in just a few until then very much. Thank you. Thank you