 At Verne Global, we explore the world to find the best places to power your journey to sustainability. Servicing all of Europe with climate neutral Nordic data centers and highly connected metro locations. We exist for the innovators, the visionaries, the ones who do things differently. Are you ready to power your journey to sustainability? Let's get started. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We are live here at ITW 2023. This is ITW Extra powered by JSA TV, the official broadcast of ITW 2023. We're coming to you live from National Harbor. This is near DC guys and it is an action packed day we have for you. Right now, I'm Jamie Scott-Okatay of JSA, joining me today with a dear friend, a star in the sustainability world in our industry, Kim Ganylias, managing director of Verne Global Finland. Kim, welcome back to JSA TV. Thank you. Pleasure to be here. It is always a pleasure to have you on. What you guys are doing is sustainability. It should be the standard in our industry and I think more education. Hopefully it will become at least a guiding influence for those data centers here on the floor of ITW and globally. So with that, how are you enjoying ITW so far? It's great. Well, you know, it's just started but still already seeing some customers walking down here. So yeah, couldn't be better. Huge event. Everyone's back in full force. I feel it. The floor is literally, there's a vibe, right? It's pulsating with opportunity. People are networking, making deals. This is a great floor. It's a great time to be back in our industry. And I should also say I'm excited about our panel tomorrow. You will be speaking with other greener data authors, which we'll get to in a second. But we're really excited to have you on our panel at four o'clock tomorrow, May 16th already. Yeah. We look very much forward to that one. And so saying that, of course, sustainability on the forefront of your company objectives. We just heard you'll be joining us as a returning author of greener data volume two guys. Kim was also in volume one right here. And now you'll be a returning author and we're so excited to have you back. Can you give us a little preview of what you might cover in the book? Sure. The number one was, you know, that was great. So, so very excited to be in part two. In the first volume, we kind of looked a little bit at what we had done so far. Overall, how we got to climate neutral and how we saw the footprint getting that down to zero. And looking a little bit forward at how to look at the sort of positive handprint that we can have across our stakeholders and ecosystem. Now, in the next part, I think we'll be focusing a little bit more on the trending technologies such as AI and the high performance computing that comes with that and what specific challenges we see there. For instance, in the area of cooling and power distribution. So that's what I'm going to be looking at. We heard it actually last week at Data Center World in London. Bill Klein and another another author of the book was talking about the same exact thing. Can't wait to hear your take on it because it is a hot topic guys. We need to figure out how can we use AI to get greener and some serious opportunities there. So I'm excited that you again are on the cutting edge. We should talk about now how Vern Global Finland, their data centers have been powered 100% guys green energy since day one. I don't know of any other company who can say that right as an innovator in this space. What do you recommend to other data center operators looking to make their operations more environmentally sound? Well, there's definitely a lot you can do. But you know, find the green energy sources near to you. If you can't do that, then what you should do is take the whole green aspect of sustainability into your way of thinking. So prioritize it and do things systematically. So that's what I would do. Get the whole team on board to start thinking about it and promote somebody to head up the sustainability operations. The most important thing is to take action, not just think about it. Yeah, and talking promotion, I should just weave in right here. Congratulations on your new title as managing director. I think that's an amazing well earned position. So sorry to interrupt the flow with a little congratulations, but well earned, my friend, well earned. Also, we should talk data cloud Monaco where that announcement was was promoted. You also announced that that there's something I don't know on the horizon potentially for Vernglobal Finland with you at the helm. Can you tell us a little bit more about what's in store now that you're managing director? Yeah, so now we used to be fickle, all right. So we're now rebranding to Vernglobal Finland. And Vernglobal out of Iceland has been focusing also on very sustainable data center operations. Now, the difference is maybe a slight difference in focus. So they've been doing a lot of the high performance computing stuff. So a lot of the power hungry stuff, we have been doing that a little bit. But now with the AI coming in big time, I don't know, a couple of years ago, I went to some event and all the companies focusing on AI were very small indeed. That's right. But it's an exponential technology. It's really going to explode. And this is where we can work together with the team in Iceland, the team in London, and also bring customers to the Nordics where it's more sustainable. You've got a cooler climate. You've got abundant green energy and really bring all of this HPC capacity up north where we can be greener together. Very smart. Very smart. Okay, so where can our viewers go to learn more? I'm sure they're highly interested. Sure. Go to vernglobal.com or finland.vernglobal.com to learn more. I love that. Go to vernglobal.com, guys. Kim, always a pleasure having you. And thank you again for becoming a returning author and greener data and for your speaking at our panel tomorrow. We are so excited about that. AI guys, huge opportunity to get ourselves greener. Vernglobal Finland, of course, leading the way. Thanks so much for your time. Thank you very much. Thank you viewers for tuning in to ITW Extra, powered by JSA TV. Happy networking. At Vernglobal, we explore the world to find the best places to power your journey to sustainability. Servicing all of Europe with climate neutral Nordic data centers and highly connected metro locations. We exist for the innovators, the visionaries, the ones who do things differently. Are you ready to power your journey to sustainability? Let's get started.