 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast. The newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Lauren Oland here in beautiful Miami, Florida for Metro Connect USA 2022. Joining me today is Lenny Chesle. He is the Chief Evangelist at IM Data Centers. Welcome, Lenny. Well, thank you so much, the hostess with the mostess. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Well, tell us about IM Data Centers and your role, Chief Evangelist. That has my curiosity peaked. Peaked here from here at SDS. So, let's start. IM Data Centers, it's been a work in progress. Actually, Michael Rourke, our CEO, has been building data centers for about 25 years, built about a million square feet of data center space over those years, has had different projects. In fact, through those projects, he said Lenny, come work for me. And I'm like, no. He said, but please come work for me. I'm like, no. And then back in November, he called me and said, hey, I think I got a big playground that you would really enjoy playing in. And he was right. And I play well with other kids in the sandbox. So, this was a fun place. So, we're building a portfolio of data centers in really two ways. We're buying existing data centers and retrofitting them with sort of the latest, greatest technologies. Really focused around sustainability and we can get into the sustainability thing. But we have today 100,000 square foot facility in Miami, Florida, which historically 22 years ago when I got in the co-location business, that's where I worked. So, it was my first Kolo gig, data center gig. And history repeats itself and everything comes full circle, so I'm back where I started. And it's a big playground. It's 100,000 square feet and it's an old, it's a 100 year old building, 54 feet above sea level, very, very cool. And we're gonna put about $10 million into it. It's not just gonna be a data center. It's gonna be a place to meet, place to hang out, place to have fun, place to come have Cuban coffee, maybe some music, we're gonna do training. It's gonna be artsy, it's gonna be just badass. Actually, the second place is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which we're going tomorrow. And there, we bought six acres of property. We are manufacturing in our Fort Lauderdale facility modular data centers. And not just containers, these are fully built out, customized modular data centers. We'll send 10 of those to Pittsburgh. And then in the third quarter, we'll turn up that facility with 6,000 square feet. And that will be the first pod and we'll be able to build up to 30,000 square feet there. So if you look at the manufacturing in Fort Lauderdale and you look at the Miami data center and then Pittsburgh, so we're sort of the crossroads of what I consider Scarface and Mr. Rogers. And a big climate change too. You're gonna go to Pittsburgh after this, good luck. Well, tell me about how, if we can dig a little deeper into the solutions, you did a great overview of IM data centers and what you're about. How are you impacting the data center industry with these solutions? Well, I'm back in the business for starters. So that's, you know, so I'm just by being here, I guess I'm perhaps impacting it because more people are laughing in the data center business now. More importantly, our investors are 100% focused on sustainability. And I mean, everything they do is around sustainability. So if you think about that, using sustainable products, using sustainable processes, using sustainable partners. So throughout the entire supply chain, if you're not having a sustainable play in how we're gonna build that data centers, you're not playing in our sandbox. So we're committed to that, we're deeply committed to that. Secondarily, we're taking as in the case of the Miami data center, a brick and mortar facility, and we will retro that with the latest technologies in solar, we'll probably use micro grid stuff. So regardless of whether it's a brick and mortar data center or the really awesome technology that we're using in the modular data centers, they will all be built around sustainability. And we're actually going to be contributors in an upcoming book about sustainability and data. Yes, very exciting opportunity. Yeah, I'm glad you're part of it. That's great. We're excited to be there. So if you just look at data centers as a global business, they use 1% of all of the world's energy. So even if we just start with one data center and we start to move that trend in the right direction, I must get the little goose bumpy thing because that excites me because I've got grandkids and I want the world to still be around. Yeah, yeah. So, all right, so the trends. So the sustainability is a big one and there's a lot of movement in repatriating data sets and repatriating workloads from the cloud, the promise to the cloud delivered for a while but sprawl being able to manage uptime guaranteed promises, security issues, transport issues, costs that people didn't expect have really created an opportunity for data center operators to provide solutions for the repatriation of data sets. Yes, absolutely. Edge, so you've got all the work that I think one of your clients is doing with a lot of edge stuff, right, and wireless and so if you look at the requirement to bring data center really the security of a data center to the edge, how do you do that? You're not going to put a brick and mortar building up. So our modular data centers work really well in the space of bringing the data center to the edge for those providers. So there's a big service provider aspect to the data center modular data center business. That's a lot to say. It is a lot. After 30 days, I've just been drinking from this fire hose of words. Well, lots of exciting stuff coming from IAM data centers and being a huge contributor in the entire ecosystem, bringing people together as these trends emerge and evolve. So we want to follow the latest from IAM data centers. Where can our viewers go to learn more? Oh, you can go right here to JSA TV. Don't go to the website yet because it's not done yet. So wait a little bit. So depending on when this airs, it might be up and it might not be up, but IAMdataCenters.com. IAMcritical.com, which is the website for our modular data center business. We'll find you on LinkedIn. So I'm a LinkedIn guy. I live on LinkedIn. I actually don't have a home. I live in LinkedIn. Find Lenny on LinkedIn. Now, thank you. I know it was a huge commute. You live in Miami. It was a huge commute. This was really difficult for me. But if I can in closing, are we done? Be kind to yourself. Be kind to others and be kind to our earth. Thank you, Lenny. Well said. Thank you very much. Always a pleasure, always a joy. Enjoy the show and thanks for joining us. My pleasure. All mine. And thank you viewers for tuning into JSA TV and JSA Podcast. Happy networking.