 Hey, everybody, this is JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, the newsroom for data center and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Skada-Kutaya of JSA, and we are so excited to be live broadcasting on the floor of ITW 2022. It's an exciting year, guys. ITW, this is their 15th year anniversary, so really great stuff for ITW and really great stuff for us. So much news breaking on the floor, and we're so excited to introduce you to Chris Jones from Spencer Building Carrier Hotel, or SBCH as we call it, but Chris has great news to talk about as well. So let's go ahead and just jump right in. Welcome, Chris, to JSA TV. Thank you. Let's go say, what's new with SBCH since the last time we talked at PTC? Yes. Well, we've been up to a lot of good stuff at Spitch. And primarily we've been working through mostly the demolition of the old space. We're about over 50% completed on that, so that's good. We've got through most of the design work, we're about 90% done on that. We've also submitted for our development permit, which is kind of the first step of a two-step process in Vancouver for receiving city approval for the project that we're doing. That'll allow us to finalize what we're doing mostly on the outside of the building and the envelope of the building. So we've got some positive feedback so far on that, which is great. So we expect within the next four weeks to get approval for that one. We've also finalized a design and got not official approval, but basically the green light for a new 25KV main electrical service vault, which will allow Spencer Building Carry Hotel to offer the power densities that we're looking for in the building in the downtown core, which is not easy to come by. So that's really great news. And then we also got approval from the city after 10 months of working with the city. We got a permit approval for two diverse entry points into our building, which are basically two manholes on the outside, which allow us to control all the connectivity coming into the primary hub at Harbor Center. So it will really give us control of all those communication cables coming in without any restrictions that you typically find. That is amazing. So much news. Again, guys, this is the Carrier Hotel in Vancouver, Spencer Building Carrier Hotel, which is underdevelopment and rocking and rolling, clearly. You touched on two things that I just want to dig into a little bit more. First up, the 25KV new electrical service that you were talking about. Can you give us a little bit more detail there? Sure, I'd love to. So this new service, obviously brand new, so that's going to give us longevity for the data center and building. But it is a higher voltage service that will allow us to provide more power and densities to our customers. And so in the future, doubling our power capacity is a huge thing. So although we're going to be providing 10 megawatts of power in the initial deployment in Vancouver, we'll be able to go to 20 plus megawatts with this new service, which is hard to do with a previous system. So that's great. We've also completed the tender process for the equipment. And this equipment is long lead items. We're talking 30, 40 plus weeks. So we've completed the tender process. We've ordered the equipment and it's on order. So we want to make sure we got that out of the way with all the supply chain issues we're seeing in the world today. We wanted to make sure we got that out of the way. So there's nothing that was going to get in the way of us delivering this power to the facility. And also it'll give us the ability to provide phase one and phase two, two separate feeders, so dedicated feeders separately. So customers who want diversity between the two phases we're doing, they can actually deploy in each one and it will be completely separate facility and infrastructure. So that's a really nice piece of it as well. Yeah. And it sort of highlights what I've been seeing from from your team, which is absolute forethought and, you know, very particular exact planning preparation as we begin to open our doors for business here at Spooch. Spooch, I always say SPCH. So when you said that, I was like, oh, it's just an internal thing that we started saying. Oh, I like it. All right. All right. We'll go with it. And how great is it that Spooch is the first data center in Vancouver to be awarded this type of permit for the second news that I want to talk about, your manhole news. Tell our clients and customers and community a little bit more about the manhole project. Sure. So, you know, the the diverse entry points or manholes was a huge thing for us because we wanted to have control of all of the cables coming into the building and you didn't have to worry about going through the city and all the approvals and red tape you have to go through and then the utility providers. So we wanted to get that unfettered control into the primary hub. And so from what we're told, we're the first privately owned company to actually have these type of manholes into our building. So it gives us more security, their private diversity is going to be important. So it gives our customers a bit more comfort that, you know, when they come in the building, they're going to have unfettered access on the west and east of the building to two completely diverse entry points, which is going to be very important to a lot of the customers that we're finding. And it's just easier because right now it's difficult working with the city authorities, so you can you can imagine how that is. And this will make it a lot easier for customers. And it's so critical, you know, we're we're running these networks. We want diversity. And then people think, OK, I'll go into this building, you know, and I'll have diversity, but then they don't realize that they're going in on the same point of entry into the building. It's not diverse. So the fact that you guys are already thinking forward, planning for that, unbelievable. So when will this manhole project be complete? And tell us a little bit about the future benefits that this project would offer your customers. Sure. So initially, each of these entry points will allow us fifty five thousand fibers into the building with the ability to double that capacity to over a hundred and ten thousand fibers by simply doing a bit more work, we can double our capacity. So we want to make sure we had enough capacity for the future for all of our customers. Fiber seems to be key for a lot of our customers. And so having that capacity available is going to be important. We're actually finishing one of the parts today. Yeah. And and it looks like I would say by the end of May, we'll be 100 percent complete for both both both East and West. So that's that's it's important to you. So yeah, so looking forward to that, it's very close to being completed. All right. And so probably the question on the minds of all of us watching and listening to this news, when will you guys begin take taking bookings for the new state of the art data center in Vancouver? Yeah. So we have already been engaging actually with a few companies in some pre-sales. So we're going to continue with those. We've got some some meetings lined up right now with people who are interested in part or all of this space. So we're starting to get traction, which is great. So I'd say that, you know, although we're in the design phase of it, this is the this is the time that a lot of larger companies want to be engaging with us because they want to get in in the ground level so they can kind of influence maybe some specifics to what they want in their facilities. So so that that's we're pretty much talking to people now. But yeah, so just reach out to us at our website, Spencerbuilding.com, and we can get in touch with you. That's right, guys. Spencerbuilding.com, phenomenal URL, phenomenal company, phenomenal people. Chris Jones, guys. Again, Spencer Building Carrier Hotel, the latest state of the art carrier hotel in Vancouver. Definitely one to check out in Vancouver, of course, being such a hub for for so many of our network centric folks. So congratulations on all your success, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us here on JSA TV. Thank you very much. Glad to be here. And thank you viewers for for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Again, here we are, latest news from the floor of ITW 2022. We're excited that you're here. Keep listening. We're we're coming live with multiple executive interviews right here. Stay tuned. Thank you, guys. Think Green and Happy Networking.