 Hey everybody, welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast via newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Jamie Scott Okutaya and joining me today is Paige Hahn. She's the chief marketing and ESG strategy officer Paige welcome to JSA TV Thank you, Jamie. It's great to be here. Oh, and it is such a pleasure to have you join us today So many great initiatives to discuss the launch of Cologix second annual Environmental social and government CSG report of course But before we get to all that go ahead and let our viewers know if they don't know already a little bit about yourself page And Cologix as a company sure, right. Thank you I have been in the digital industry infrastructure for the past eight or nine years And I have been the chief marketing officer at Cologix for the past two years I am excited that my role is now expanding to include being our ESG strategy officer Where I have the opportunity to develop and grow our ESG road map to build strategies for ESG opportunities and to drive our ESG initiatives Cologix builds and runs network neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data centers in 11 markets in the US and Canada It's an exciting industry the digital infrastructure industry is a hybrid industry And I'm proud to be a female executive in this industry and specifically at Cologix Yeah, and for us folks here in the data center community. We certainly know your brand. We've been watching you guys just Grow so amazingly you guys often are Such leaders in the space we look to you for inspiration So let's go ahead and circle back first though about your ESG report exciting news there Can you provide us just a little bit of background on the report and what Cologix is doing to really enhance its environmental social and governance practices? Yes We're excited about publishing our second ESG report is called engineered for scale and in it We talk about how we're scaling with our business and all of our ESG initiatives So this is the first time in this report that we're sharing our ESG roadmap and our material topics Publicly, which are those topics which are most important to us and our stakeholders from an ESG perspective It's also the first time that we've shared publicly our target to become carbon neutral and scope one and scope two emissions by 2030 Which we think is exciting We also share Informations report on our DEI initiatives for our employees We share stories about how they're having such a great impact in their communities and around the world There's just an opportunity for us to share the tremendous strides that we've taken over the past year around our ESG initiatives And these are just activities that we're going to build on over the years to come And you know, we're hearing several companies like yourself who are committing writing down in a pact even We are committing to becoming carbon neutral by 2030 scope one and two Can you just give us a little bit more flavor more information so we can do it? Alongside you a little bit more inspiration and how you are putting in place. What initiatives are you putting in place to really reach that goal? Sure. Well, so in addition to committing to being carbon neutral and scope one and scope two by 2030 We've also committed to being a hundred percent using a hundred percent renewable energy by 2030 as well Today about half of our energy usage is from renewable energy, which we're really proud of Some examples of ways that we're reducing our carbon emissions today are the usage of LED lighting We're reducing the frequency of doing generator testing so over the past few years We've been able to reduce that in half We're doing things like using environmentally friendly chillers for cooling as typically half of the data centers energy Use is tied to cooling We're also lessening our electricity consumption for cooling by using things like ambient air where we can in specific markets Using things like deep lake water cooling So we're doing that in Toronto where we're working with the city of Toronto to pull to pull Cold water from the bottom of the lake there and pump that into our data centers to cool them in a more natural way Oh my god. I just love that. I was just ferociously taking notes. Love what you're doing with Toronto specifically So so new and innovative Also talking innovative. You're currently I believe more than 50 percent female representation in Colleges leadership team Which is extraordinary amazing love it again Colleges being a leader we all look to and and are inspiring us here in the data center world Can you discuss with us your work? And what you're doing to really ensure this increased representation of women as well as the diversity inclusion initiatives that you set for the future Yes, so for me personally it's the first time I've worked in an environment where over 50 percent female from an executive perspective And it's been an exciting place to be to be in that kind of environment In addition, we added our first female board member in early 2022 to earlier this year Which has been a great step forward and then another thing we've done this year as we started our first employee resource group Which is specifically for the women at co-logics. It's called co-logics women's connection group And we had our first kickoff meeting in January of this year over 90 percent of the women attended that first kickoff meeting And we've had tremendous representation all of the meetings since then that are really focused on connecting the women of Co-logics helping them in their career path helping them to Solve problems and and just grow themselves professionally and personally so a lot of different things that co-logics is doing Around the DI space and it's been an exciting place to to be a female and to help lead the company Gosh, and I know if I was younger in my career path here I would be looking at co-logics to to go find a supportive women's network to grow my career professionally So with that in mind for our viewers who are listening and want to learn more. Where can they go? They should go to co-logics.com We've got a lot of great information there You can find our ESG interactive report there as well as just the standard one and other great places to look for Information about co-logics and about our ESG initiatives are on our blog as well as on LinkedIn and Twitter. Oh So many great resources. Thank you so much page and I will point your attention down below to this URL Thank you again page and your co-logics colleagues for so much great Information for for all of us here in our industry also Thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast as always happy networking