 Welcome, welcome, everybody. We are here live broadcasting to you from ITW 2023. I'm Jamie Skado-Kutaya, CEO of JSA. And this is ITW Extra, powered by JSA, the official broadcast of ITW 2023. And guys, we are here in National Harbor, just a stone's throw away from DC. And I am joined by incredible thought leaders here from Scala Data Centers. We have Cristiana Vice-Hoon, the Senior Director of Strategy and ESG Program, as well as Augustino Valela, CTO and Engineering Vice President. Thank you guys for joining us today. Welcome. Thanks for having us. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for receiving us. Oh, it is such an honor. Such an honor. Of course, you guys are known as the sustainability partners of ITW. There's so much for us to talk about. But first, for our viewers who might not already know, and we should write that wrong right now, can you tell us just a little bit about Scala? Sure, sure, definitely yes. Thank you, Jamie. So Scala Data Centers was created in April, 2020, when Digital Bridge decided to buy to the data centers in Sao Paulo from UOL Divio, Sao Paulo in Brazil. To spin off Scala, it's Latin America Sustainable Hyperscale Data Center platform to pursue the cloud provider's demand that were growing at that time. And that strategy proved itself to be so right that we have been increasing 100% year over year. So it's a massive growth. And what do we do? We build and operate state-of-the-art sustainable data centers for hyperscalers and provide renewable power, cooling, connectivity, and also security for them. Actually, we have a very, very unique strategy for hyperscalers in Latin America. We have dedicated areas for them in single-tenant facilities where they can have a whole building or data halls instead of racks, which is more common in that region. And we also offer them a reserved capacity where they can grow for the next years and decades. We also now have more than 60 megawatts of IT capacity in Sao Paulo, and where we have seven operational data centers and we are growing and we are building nine more in Sao Paulo, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico in the other countries of Latin America. And we were enabled, what enables that fast growth is our two proprietary construction methods. One of them is one-scala template designed for high capacity buildings. And where we base, we have a standard framework where we can customize for our hyperscalers requirements. And we also have a fast-deploy approach, which is highly scalable, highly replicable solution based on modular components. And this was created by our Center of Excellence in Engineering with more than 200 engineers and architects that are dedicated to the whole life cycle of our data centers. So they are dedicated to the test feed, design operations and construction and delivery to operations. And actually Agostino here, my peer is responsible for that. And so what else can I say about Scala? We are doing all that in a sustainable way. So we were the first data center operator in Latin America to operate with 100% renewable energy coming from renewable sources. And we were the first to attain the carbon neutrality. And we are super, we are highly efficient. Our PUE is the lowest in Latin America. We operate with around 135 PUE, as opposed to 174, which is the average in the region. We don't use water in our data centers. We, they are air cooled and we, on top of that, we operate with the free cooling technique which we mark cold days. We can use the external air to refrigerate our data centers. And so we can turn off some fans and that can save us energy. So I'm sorry about that. It was a long story, but I think it was, we have achieved so many things in these years that they have to be longer than necessary. Sorry. No, not at all. You can hear your passion for Scala and for sure a well earned passion because you have capacity, scalability and of course sustainability, which Agostino as a CTO and engineering vice president, you are making it happen, if you will. So tell us a little bit about how Scala contributes to carbon offsetting. Well, on top of contributing with the forestation of 6,000 trees as part of the sustainability partner effort of ITW, we're also looking to other venues so other opportunities of carbon capture, carbon offsetting. On top of what Christina just mentioned, I mean, our sustainability credentials, very honestly, I think they're pretty impressive. And I would add to that that we are looking very seriously into green concrete for instance, which we see as a very effective way of doing carbon sequestration, doing carbon removal, not only with the cement, with the concrete itself, with the aggregates, but also with the way the cement is made. Okay, and I think that can have a huge impact. And we might even possibly impact the way the rebar's steel is made, in the sense of making it also with a little carbon footprint. And on top of that, we are looking to other ways of reducing our carbon footprint, such as replacing diesel with green diesel. And by green diesel, I mean things like HVO or gas to liquid, just to quote two examples here. And we are also looking to other ways to reduce our footprints, for instance, having more circular approach to everything we do, review whether we should stay with lithium batteries or maybe use high-rate lead batteries. So we're looking at this in a very holistic way beyond the traditional things that the industry has been looking into. And that makes me think about a colleague of yours spoke earlier today at ITW and really talked a lot about your fast deploy product. Can you give our viewers a little clip about that? Yes, in the Cliff Notes version of fast deploy is that it is an innovation that Scala has devised in order to deploy hyper-edge data centers. By hyper-edge, I mean the data centers that are deployed at the edge, not only to hyper-scalers, but also to over-the-top players, to CDNs, et cetera. And normally when you want to do this kind of deployment, you do want to do it faster than a conventional data center, but at the same time you want to provide the same experience as a conventional data center. That's the tricky part. So the way you want to do this is at the same time you're pursuing permits and construction, you want to basically be building prefabricated model of data centers so that when you're done with the foundation, you can bring in these prefabricated model data centers, assemble them at the construction site and build a shell around them. So again, in a way that you can provide experience of conventional data center, but shelving, shaving the time that it takes to build a data center by almost half. So I'm saying going from 18 months to build a data center to almost 12 months, so it provides a tremendous saving in terms of time. And again, that would translate into sustainability because when you fabricate something instead of building at the site, you end up having economies of scale that intrinsic to a factor which definitely has a lower carbon footprint. On top of that, the fact that it's modular because you can add PMDC, you build one single shell but you can actually add PMDCs as you go, you can also benefit from new technologies that come along. So actually, it's future proof. It means that if you have a more sustainable way to build up PMDC, you will benefit from that. And so all that contributes to being more sustainable using less material. You know what blows my mind is that you guys have only been here for three years, is that right? Three years. And I feel like just the level of detail you guys have figured out our sustainability needs. And as an industry, we're looking to you guys as inspiration. So I cannot be more appreciative that you're sharing all this incredible information with our viewers here today. I really, you guys are talking my love language and I'm so grateful for you all. So talking these past three years, you guys have grown so significantly. What do you attribute to all the success? Yes, we have a very highly skilled management team that is totally focused on the success of our customers. They are in the center of our strategy, as well as sustainability. They are at the very core of our strategy. And besides that, I would highlight also that we are located in strategic locations in Latin America. We also have anticipated the demand and we procure in advance land power and equipment in advance so that we can secure availability and time, right? And on top of that, I would highlight that we have this ESG and EHS top of mind programs running in the company. And also last but not least, I would highlight the state of the art, let's say, in design and operation and construction teams that we have without them. We wouldn't be nothing. I'll tell you, it really does go back to the power of the people, too. You can have all the technology and creativity in the world, but it has to come from humans and phenomenal leadership. You should mention your CEO being recognized and the Power 100 list from Capacity just announced. So congratulations. You're super proud of that, in fact. Yeah, it's huge, by the way. It's huge, that list is like the real deal. So congratulations. Thank you. So where can our viewers go to learn more about Scala? Yes, our website, ScalaDataCenters.com, our LinkedIn, we are very active in LinkedIn. And also we always participate in events like ITW. We are always around, participating in panels and interviews and things like that, so that's it. ITW's official sustainability partner guys, Scala, data centers, if you haven't heard of them yet, you better, you better look them up. ScalaDataCenters.com. Dot com. Got to say it. All right, thank you guys for joining us. Your expertise was incredible, so appreciate you. And thank you viewers for tuning in to ITW Extra, powered by JSA. Happy networking.