 Hello, everyone welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in the digital infrastructure Community leaders like Matt Johns who is the VP of sales for core site welcome Matt. Thank you very much Thank you. Yeah. Thank you so much for taking the time. I know it's such a busy conference There's so much going on super well attended So we wanted to just kind of dive right in you all have had of course a lot of news come out lately as you kind of always seem to have so Recently you released an impressive lineup of partners and customer news over the past few months So could you just maybe choose one of those to highlight for us? Sure, of course One of the more exciting announcements that we came out with is an enhancement to our open cloud exchange So we recently offered increase bandwidth levels to AWS direct connect hosted connections as well as Google cloud So we've augmented the network speeds up to 50 gigs of connectivity to public clouds So we're pretty excited about that because obviously it allows our customers to do higher levels of data transfer to those public clouds But we've done it in a very simplistic manner meaning Customers can very easily provision on-demand these high-level connections and increase their throughput Really in just a matter of minutes. So we're pretty excited about that Hopefully more announcements to come but we continue to innovate on our open cloud exchange and we're excited to Deliver that to our customer base today Excellent. Excellent. So getting into a little bit more news going back a few months over the summer You all released a state of the data center report So could you let us know is there anything that maybe surprised you about the findings? Yeah, this is a key report survey that we've done every year And this is a quantitative survey where we go out to IT leaders in the space and we really we get some important findings about data center trends Cloud computing trends and strategies and one of the things that probably jumped out to us the most was that 94% of IT decision-makers are really focused on native data center Connections cloud interconnects really within the data center itself. So The reason for that is we're happy to see that right is a as one of the focus areas for these IT leaders Because it really does deliver some powerful performance security and cost savings when Customers can connect to those public cloud on ramps directly out of the data center itself. So there's some really real Positive business output business outcomes that come from that. Yeah, that's that's really awesome The in a power of interconnection right power of interconnection. Yeah. Yeah, so What do you see as we kind of wrap up here? We like to ask about trends for 2024 since believe it or not We are getting toward the end of the year. So what do you see as? Maybe the top trend or one of the top trends in the data center industry for next year Well, it shouldn't surprise anybody that artificial intelligence Seems to be ubiquitous as seems to be the talk of the town understanding that technology is probably still in early innings, but Certainly, you know, what we see trend-wise is probably nine out of ten organizations today are looking to AI As to how they gain a competitive advantage in business, right? And it's a massive industry and on a global level. It's expected to be the AI market is probably close to $1.8 trillion by 2030. So it is really it's here now. It's going to be changing It's very impactful for everybody But really the the benefit for our customers to really take advantage of AI There's two important pieces that we see one is you have to have a very sound operational environment So these and these deployments are very compute intensive They're very power intensive. So you need to find a facility that can design an engineer to support that type of Power capacity that's needed, but also the cooling that's needed. So again, these are AI workloads Which are very intensive in nature from a power and cooling standpoint So you need to find and partner with somebody who has experience in doing that The second element I would say is is really the interconnection piece you mentioned interconnection a little bit earlier But you know the data that's being produced out of these models Eventually need to be accessed and need to be distributed And being in a location where you have a high degree of interconnection An optionality to connect to network providers and public clouds is really going to be key It's not putting that environment just anywhere, but it needs to be put into a well connected densely connected cloud adjacent type of facility Yeah, that's what we're most excited about. Yeah, excellent. Well, thank you so much for always Happy to hear the latest insights about AI and sustainability and everything that's going on And thank you matt for joining us here live from dcd virginia. Appreciate the opportunity. Thank you guys Absolutely. Thank you and thank you viewers for hanging out with us at dcd virginia. Stay tuned for more and happy networking