 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Lauren Oland coming to you from ITW 2020 joining me today is Jonathan Bernie chief operating officer at Chaiora Welcome to JSA TV Jonathan Hi Laura. That's great to be here virtually with you Absolutely. Well, we're glad you're here and we would love for you to start off by telling our viewers who may not know about Chaiora What Chaiora is and what you do? Yeah, thanks. Thanks very much. Well Chaiora is a passion for me and Oliver Jones and Stephen Sauer who founded the business in 2011 and Our business is a data center developer investor and operator focus exclusively on China But we create data center campuses on a on a very large scale and and our Propositions the market and we're a we're very much a customer focused business is to deliver international standard data centers and I think, you know, there's been there's been all sorts of momentum around the data center market and You know, we feel as though we're in a very exciting time As as the data center market blossoms and grows in the sort of environment that we're in it we're in just just at the moment and Our challenge our challenge right now is to go fast enough That's a good problem to have and I know Chaiora is working with a lot of progress and we've seen over the last 18 months two years a lot of Mention in the news and speaking of news want to see if you have any updates or recent news You'd like to share with our viewers that this year's ITW virtual event. Sure. Well, I mean, I think I think, you know, it would be clear to everybody that we've been going through a world world event and You know China has been operating in a different speed To the rest of the world Obviously experienced coronavirus COVID-19 before anybody else, but that means that it's come out earlier as well and what that has meant is that We've been able to restart work in China on our data center in Tianjin and and if you remember we announced earlier actually on January the 16th of this year that we had entered a partnership with Telstra and Having been able to restart The construction of our data center and this is the MEP fit app We're now able to take advantage of that partnership and and certainly by the Q4 of this year will have our first data halls ready to go in partnership with with Telstra So, you know, it's it's it's the coming together of all these sort of exciting elements And and actually delivering this international standard data center Only about 120 kilometers from from from Beijing the really exciting thing about it is that Because of the environment where we're in where People are much more reliant on on the internet and and virtual And the virtual world the demand for data centers and connectivity is clearly rising And so customers are very keen to discover when we're going to be ready What's going to be ready and how fast can we go once once we're in place? So that's that's one of the things that's happening we're also kicking off the expansion of this data this Existing first phase of the data center. So we're going to commence the second phase as well during the course of this year And and we're also working hard on identifying a site in Shanghai so we're we're quite busy and You know hoping to take take take the opportunities that are presented to us at the moment So it's gonna be a busy second half the year for sure Absolutely, well, we will definitely be watching and and seeing the progress on a busy 2020 for Chaiora for sure and beyond it Yeah, it sounds like where can our viewers? Where can our viewers go to learn more about Chaiora and and all of your great updates? Sure? Well, I mean that we we we obviously use things like LinkedIn. So that's where our sort of a lot of our day-to-day news Arises but also our website www.chaiora.com Where we're able that where we provide provide updates But also, you know if people are interested We're also very happy to have a discussion about you know the detail of what we're doing in terms of Updates and and it is changing on a day-to-day basis. I mean, we're we're in a we're in a hugely dynamic market so You know people will I hope see lots of announcements on LinkedIn and Certainly as we get towards the the fourth quarter of this year You know many many more many many more positive announcements as well coming out Wonderful you heard it from Jonathan go check out Chaiora and learn more We we thank you so much Jonathan for joining us. It's always a pleasure and thank you for sharing your insights in your time Thanks for taking the time Laura. Thank you and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking