 Hello. Welcome back to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, where we're covering the latest stories, trends, and innovations with leaders, such as Karsten here, from Global Connectivity, Real Estate, and the networks within. So I'm Candice Sipoes with JSA. I'm here with Karsten Winter, President of AMIA for Verdev. Welcome, Karsten. Thank you. Yeah, we're so glad to have you. So we'll just jump right into it. Verdev just released news yesterday, very exciting news about your expansion in Norway to support Green Mountains growth. Could you tell us a little bit about that news? Yeah, it's very exciting. Actually, we've been working together with Green Mountain for quite a few years now, supporting them with power solutions and cooling solutions. As a lot of people will know, Green Mountain is a super green co-locator that is actually taking all the advantages of green power actually coming out of Norway here. This particular collaboration actually concerns the data of 140 megawatts that they're actually deploying as we speak. And we found it absolutely necessary to invest in the country, actually to invest in collaborations with Green Mountain. So we've actually established a company pretty much working around the sites that we're going to build. And we're hiring a lot of very talented people all actually aiming to support Green Mountain in the build of that particular site, which is in a few phases. But our relationship with Green Mountain goes back quite a while. Excellent. Love to hear that great partnership with such an incredible leader on both sides. And I know you were also on the keynote panel yesterday about sustainable operating models. So is there maybe for folks who weren't there especially, could you give us a key takeaway from that? Well, I think it's fair to say that as we actually discover in this event, but also in the past, obviously every player in the data industry wants to be a corporate good citizen. And obviously VertiVis is one of them. We have released now two HG reports where we're actually outlining all the efforts we are taking in order to obviously participate and take a responsibility for for the planet and everything we do. And the latest DSG report is actually outlining a number of elements where we are specifically focusing right now. Obviously there are elements around our products and solutions, there are elements around our people, there are elements around all our operations, elements around our neighbors, obviously elements around diversity, equity and inclusion, and obviously governance across all of it. The report actually dictates and demonstrates that we have actually formed an executive council that actually is rooted in the very top of the company that helps us actually to ensure that we are following through with all those actions that we want to take. Obviously with the new legislation coming into place in EU from 1st of January 2024 with the CSRD reports and everything around it, we obviously are already taking measures to make sure that we are paying attention to our carbon footprinting and actually are in the process of making sure that we will be compliant with the legislation that comes in place in just a few months. There's one element obviously which is very much around energy efficiency which is something that obviously is on the mind of this industry as a whole and we have taken not only just measures around our own operations, examples that is actually that we are now implementing and have implemented in some of our plans actually renewable energy that actually is supporting to run the plans in our entire fleet across EMEA, a car fleet across EMEA we have a lot of service technicians out there supplying and supporting our customers. We're making sure that everywhere where we can and where there is an infrastructure locally in the country we can actually enable electric cars as an example. We are looking into how we actually lightening all systems. So there's a lot of actions actually happening around all our own operations and of course around products and solutions and actually to try and help our clients as was mentioned yesterday in the panel. Also they actually want to make sure that they comply with scope 1, 2 and later scope 3 and that actually does imply that they need to actually also take responsibility to demonstrate carbon footprinting from their suppliers up and down and as we are one of the biggest suppliers in this industry obviously we have a responsibility and duty to make sure that we're actually delivering that and we are already in that process as well. So there's a lot of things happening as it stands right now and obviously a lot more to come as we move forward. Excellent, you mentioned the sustainability report that came out recently in May that Fertig put out. Is there anything else that you want to talk about from avert of sustainability standpoint? Yeah I think so obviously as we are a technology developer and provider we spend a lot of time trying to identify how we can actually raise the bar of reducing carbon footprint and actually making sure that we are doing everything we can to actually preserve the environment in any way and so some of the elements that we're actually looking into is also if we could actually find alternative materials to actually build data centers and could be alternatives to steel, corridor assessing various materials, we had some great discussions yesterday with some clients who has also been on a little bit on the forefront of that and we are actually probably going to do something together here but it actually also encompasses making sure that we are you know not trying to actually use absolutely more power than is needed in the data center and we have solutions here we're looking into cooling solutions obviously now with a high density coming with ANI to try and find could there be alternatives to all these very poisonous refrigerants and could there all the alternatives ways of cooling but there's one element which I think in terms of overall sustainability which is very important which obviously one element is in the environment but a very important element is also around the S and taking social responsibility and we're doing a lot I'm actually spending at least once a quarter I go to pretty much most of our biggest sites around around Amir and we are taking a lot of action to make sure that we are taking good care of our people and their families needless to say we're actually formulating a DEI governance and and employee groups to make sure that we're actually sponsoring actually diversity in every way we can in my own leadership we have many different nationalities so there's a lot of things actually happening with inverted actually also to make sure that we are also paying attention to the S in the ESG and of course the governance I think are already touched so it's very exciting times in many ways I think it does demand a lot of responsibility does demand and calls for a lot of actions to be done we've outlined a lot with inverted and we're in a good way to actually make a lot of those happen excellent excellent well thank you so much for sharing that with us for such an incredible leader in our industry and I see see you all everywhere at all of these conferences so you know you're definitely a thought leader and also an industry leader so thank you for joining us today on JSA TV thanks for being here yeah and to all of our viewers thank you for hanging out with us today on JSA TV here live from the ESG summit happy networking thank you