 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Laura Noland and a beautiful Honolulu Hawaii at PTC 20 joining me now is Oliver Jones CEO of Chaiora Welcome Oliver. Hi Laura. Lovely to meet you. Great to be here on this beautiful island. It is beautiful It sure is well, we've got a lot to talk about with Chaiora You've been very busy a lot of milestones in the past 12 to 14 months Tell us what's happening at Chaiora and maybe for our viewers also what Chaiora is about Okay. Well, Chaiora is a a data center development company that designs operates and funds Hyperscale data center campuses in mainland China very difficult market to access one of the world's biggest online markets And we're there to help bridge the difficulties of working in that enormous market for international companies domestic hyperscalers who want international standards and very newly Co-location services as well. The big news was the opening of the Tianjin data center And how is that helping now bridge Western businesses over to China? Well, I think one of the first things one has to get used to when working in China is to move on from the old Adage of calling it hyperscale when you're in China, it's China scale, which is slightly bigger than hyperscale And when we first set out to create a campus, which will be 25,000 racks You know to and point something million square feet and 300 megawatts of gross power That's an enormous environment and there's very few global campuses that are anywhere near that scale So for us Tianjin is a great location with it's there to serve Beijing, which is very close And it's we're working very closely with government in order to ensure that we don't just deliver a data center environment We deliver a business environment that means tax incentives that means linkages with local universities And that means having the ability to help our customers be part of the digital if you like revolution that's taking place in China Wonderful. So what's in store next for Chao? I know that you've added some pivotal team members and tell us more about some of that recent news Well, we had some great recent news We were delighted to welcome as a new senior executive our EVP of network and strategy Yali Liu Yali is one of the leading Individuals in the Chinese network market she was formerly with China cash where she led the creation of the first internet exchange in China and She's come on board at just the same time as we've just announced a strategic partnership with Telstra of Australia Telstra is the leading international telecoms firm inside China and for us working with Telstra to deliver both Of the chart international standard connectivity also links with them working with us as our co-location Retail co-location partner on the site So the next six months is going to be really exciting as our two teams work very closely together as we start to fill the first 3000 rack facility. We hope that we'll do two of those in due course with Telstra And really create something that you know international companies can be very comfortable with when they get into China We'll definitely be watching tell us where people can learn more about Chao is a website social media Where would you want him to go? It's a Chai or a comm ch a y o r a dot com We are on social media, but mainly through LinkedIn as much as anything I'm still trying to work out how we can use Instagram for what we're doing There's only so many pictures of servers that you can get excited about you know, but actually so yeah, so it's true Chai or comm and you know, we have here at PTC. We have six of our senior executives here So we're easy to find you know look up data centers in China, and you'll hopefully find us Excellent. Thank you Oliver Thank you so much for joining us and thank you viewers for joining us here on JSA TV and JSA podcast Happy networking