 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Nolan coming to you from sunny Miami Florida for Metro Connect USA 2022. Joining me today is Patrick Jean Grosso the vice president at Mission Critical Facilities International or MCFI. Welcome back to JSA TV. Thank you very much Laura. Nobody told me it was going to be this cold in Miami. I know it's warming up though feeling good. I tell him we leave it'll be nice and warm. Exactly exactly well can you tell our viewers about MCFI for those who may not know much about you. Yeah so thank you MCFI is a design build data center solution set. We also offer micro grid solutions for green technology with green technologies helping clients meet their sustainability needs but primarily doing data center refurbs as well as design build showing lower costs and quicker times to market. Wonderful wonderful and just hot off the presses recent headlines MCFI announced the deployment of its genius modular data center. The first data center co-location facility in the Permian Basin which is huge news so you can tell us more about that. Yeah so we did a one megawatt solution for BBT big bent telecom and they needed a solution right at the edge in the Permian Basin to help their clients who the oil and gas industry where they're doing a lot of data collection and a lot of monitoring of the wellheads within the Permian Basin so they needed a solution up and quick and we helped deliver that solution with our genius data center design. So not only to improve safety at the oil fields but also in the underserved communities improving communication there so twofold. Yeah so it really also like you said addresses the underserved area where they really don't have a lot of the the latency little latency and you got to go all the way to Dallas or to Houston for your data so this gives that better serving in the community as well where they didn't have much broadband to begin with. So a big boost for West Texas and the oil and gas industry. Wonderful so here at Metro Connect when you're talking to folks the audience here how are you communicating how MCFI can help the sustainable micro grid solutions or edge data center strategy that they're looking for how can MCFI be a part of that. So it's twofold one is helping clients that are rolling out fiber solutions and they're looking they need a green solution and so what we offer is our micro grid solution which is primarily solar based for primary energy and then uses lithium ion energy storage and fuel cells and the real key there is the fuel cell alleviates the need to have diesel gen sets. Diesel gen sets are environmentally tough to manage you've got the diesel fuel you got to worry about and you've got maintenance on a monthly basis you have to deal with so you kind of get rid of all that with our solution that has no moving parts and so maintenance goes down to nothing can help with cost of electricity can help on a number of different levels especially on permitting can help you with permitting in locations where it's hard to permit a diesel generator you can now permit this a lot easier because everybody will kiss you because it's a fuel cell. That's great news that's great news Patrick. So what are some of the other technologies that MCFI is looking at for future projects. So one of the things that the genius data center and not necessarily technology but a different application of the solution and really talking to a lot of the guys in this at this conference are people who are building cable landing stations CLS right and typically they just build a cable landing station and then everybody else connects to it and the data goes off well there's really a good opportunity to build a co-location facility as part of that right it doesn't have to be big 50 racks 100 racks gives you an opportunity for additional revenue but it gives it to you at the edge right at where that that the data is coming in from whether it's coming in from Latin America whether it's coming in from Europe or it's just jumping around from region to region right so but it gives you that ability to additional revenue and sell space sell IT cabinets at the right at your right at the cable landing station and fast speed the market to extreme yeah fast speed the market so we can be up and running with that solution normally we say about eight months right now eight to 12 depending on lead times but because the way we've designed it we're minimizing the lead times by being able to order stuff right away versus because the design's already done excellent well speaking of time I hear a lot of chatter downstairs so I don't want to keep you too long so you can go back to networking but before you go tell our viewers where they can learn more about MCFI so you go to MCFI group comm for the our main website and you can go to genius data centers dot com to see more about our genius data solution and then for our micro grid solution you can go to micro genius dot com excellent lots of ways to find MCFI and even connect with Patrick on LinkedIn if if you're on LinkedIn so choose well thanks for joining us again Patrick always a pleasure having you thank you so much for having me and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast happy networking