 This is JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV We are coming at you on location at the W Hotel in beautiful Hoboken, New Jersey And I am here with mr. Todd Coleman. Todd is the president and CEO of E-Structure Todd welcome to JSA TV. You've been here before haven't you? I have I have good morning Dean Thanks for having me you bet you bet so Todd we're gonna talk about AI in the data center and specifically AI as it meets the needs of enterprise customers and ultimately impacts the data centers that are Providing those those types of services. So Todd, why don't you talk to us about AI in your data center? And what E-Structure is doing to to meet the needs of enterprise AI customers? Yeah, so I mean look we've attracted a number of AI labs and some of the association members into our data center already And we continue to work with them to understand their needs, you know I've talked about this in the past, which is our understanding of certain types of applications that are coming into our data center and their unique needs that may not necessarily Completely fit into a traditional tier 3 data center AI is no different So when we talk about underlying applications like blockchain, which tends to drive a lot of the AI development deep learning needs We find that their Requirements are different from a power from a cooling perspective from a level of redundancy And so we continue to work with them to understand what they're developing why they're developing it what their needs are, you know we've found You know, we've worked with a couple of labs and you know for us It's as much Understanding that some of them are driving off of new applications. So for example, you know, we're working with a group Called nothing artificial and they've got a different bend on AI and they really work from a neurosciences perspective really from a bottom up working with the human intelligence as opposed to the artificial intelligence and so we're working with them to understand What their needs are but also trying to understand how we assimilate that into our data center and our day-to-day operations as well Outstanding so you you are you're talking about needs and about the specific your customer needs and AI has the ability to help kind of Fair it out Issues and problems and resolve the problems that your customers might have Why don't you talk to our view or our viewers a little bit about how AI in the data center helps kind of Determine what some of those issues are and how those can be resolved So obviously when you run in a mission mission critical environment, you know time is of the essence, you know We like to think that nothing ever goes wrong in a tier 3 data center But that's why we put the level of redundancies in to give us more time to react But when you're under that type of pressure when something's going wrong whether it's at the customer level or at the data center level How you think through those processes the timing the steps that you undertake are important to Keeping the data center operational keeping the customer application infrastructure up and so look we've we've looked at certain applications Really working with the manufacturers in terms of response times checklists that the technicians would otherwise go through you know I mentioned earlier something called Neural Tracker which is driven of of The nothing artificial lab and you know we've had discussions with dr. Forbear who runs the lab and in the at the University of Montreal and currently they're working with a number of sports teams and Quarterbacks and decision-makers where they see an environment in front of them And it's how quickly they react especially under pressure right when your adrenaline is pumping And so we're trying to understand how do we assimilate that to the data center? So our technicians are going through the same processes that they would otherwise do with still using their human intelligence But having to think about it and having to react quicker because time is of the essence sure outstanding Yeah, this is fascinating. I feel like we could probably talk all morning and afternoon about this But we would be remiss obviously if we didn't talk about security in the data center security and AI and the safeguards to protect to protect networks and and You know those those types of assets. Why don't you talk to our viewers a little bit about? You know how how e-structure and AI are? Are safeguarding your customers against the increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks? Yeah, look I think Almost everyone the world is under attack every day data centers. No different right every day We're getting hit with something whether it's a D-DOS attack or some sort of email exchange We're we're working with our customers our partners and our employees on how we react to that So you know we have an individual within our company that pretty much a hundred percent of his time is focused on Networks security Physical security in around the data center, you know We run our employees through training and even I get emails from our security team testing me on how I react to certain emails So look we're looking for new ways to to handle that You know five six years ago as a as an infrastructure mission-critical infrastructure operator We never really thought a whole lot about The internet security of things we think about physical security and now it's evolved where we need to be experts in the Internet of security of things and so we're looking for new applications We're working with all of the the various intelligence forums to understand what's the latest things going under attack We're not the experts we rely on experts, but we have to bring that into our data center every single day I think AI can help with that because again once again It's decision-making so if you see something inbound whether it's an attack on the network whether it's an email exchange The ability to cite decipher through that and make a quick decision as to what you how you handle that particular attack The the quicker we respond the the more likely we're gonna stay operational Outstanding and I love the fact that you you know you are talking about partnerships and about using Partnerships within the industry to make sure that your customers needs are met from top to bottom So it's a it's an interesting take because I think a lot of times we will talk to folks And they want to try to be all to all and that's just not that's just not reasonable in in our day and age Right, but let's talk about our day and age as it relates to the future E structure. I know that you guys have got a lot going on I know that you've kind of had your finger on the pulse of of the future and things But let's not talk about so much about What's going on today? What's gonna go? What's happening with e-structure tomorrow? Let's talk about a year from now, maybe even five years from now Yeah, well, I mean look you raise a good point on partnerships Look, we founded this company and I've started other companies where you know on the principle that we want to focus on our core Competencies, we're not all things to everyone. We don't believe in the bright shiny Object environment where we chase the latest trend and hopes that that's that's our our boat boat to salvation And so partnerships are a big thing Obviously we continue to be a quiz diff And that's that's been a priority of ours and we'll continue to do that I think I've made comments before I mean we run our acquisition funnel like most people run a sales funnel And so we're continuing to look for opportunities primarily in Canada and we'll continue to do that We're looking at new markets, you know, we've we've expanded into Vancouver recently. We don't expect to stop there And so I would like to think that we'll announce, you know more new markets over the upcoming 12 months And that's the kind of stuff we like to hear right now You know no particular names and and you know, but we're looking at opportunities constantly, you know the market's gonna evolve and You know, we'd like to think that there's going to continue to be consolidation in the marketplace We're seeing trends where you know, the US telecos are getting out of the data center business They got out of it in early 2000. They got back into it In the mid, you know, 2013 2014 range and though they're starting to exit those because they're realizing the capital intensity is Is more than what they want to put towards it compared to their more traditional telecom business And so I think those are going to create opportunities new market places as You know as data becomes more localized new markets are going to evolve And so it won't be limited to what we consider to be tier one tier two markets Which is primarily driven the data center growth over the last 10 or 15 years But we'll get into tier three three and tier four markets as we push data closer and closer to the eyeballs and closer and closer To the edge of the internet so yeah, you know our expectations is these structures going to be part of that consolidation strategy Outstanding time. It's it's always a pleasure having you on JSA TV. We thank you for being here today. Thanks Dean Thanks for having me. You got it. You got it and a good look on your panel later today Thank you. You got it. You got it and thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon You