 Welcome to JSA TV live the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Dean Perine coming to you live from Metro Connect 2023 in the beautiful Fort We are in Fort Lauderdale. We're not Miami in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida the Venice of North America I'm told it is and I'm here with my new friend mr. Luke Kipfer Luke is the vice president of data center development and construction at Powerhouse data centers Luke welcome to JSA TV. Hey, thanks to be here. I love talking powerhouse And I love talking data centers and you guys are always willing to listen, so I'm glad to be here outstanding Well, that's what we're gonna do right now. So Luke for our viewers that don't already know Why don't you tell us a little bit about powerhouse data and? Powerhouse data centers powerhouse is a division of American real estate partners a rep It's their data center technical division. So a rep has been a developer You know across the East Coast for over 20 years over 20 billion acquisitions 200 million square feet So long history developing real estate assets in the Northeast across the country In both good and bad economic times. So in 2020 2021 2021 really started acquiring some lead some key strategic landslides throughout northern Virginia That last year we officially launched the powerhouse brand So now we've got you know over 600 megawatts of deployment of data center when Development or construction right now very good. So let's go ahead and talk about that development I understand that you are you are planning to build six data centers in northern Virginia in the heart of data center Alley as we like to call it as you very well know What can you tell us a little bit about the progress of those? Maybe x1 that's right on the corner of Bohmian Circle. That was our first property acquisition That's going vertical now. We actually have the topping off ceremony next month We've got that building delivery in October of next of this year So we're really excited that that's in a key strategic location and that's really our first building to go to the market We've got our powerhouse specific site, which is the old a well world headquarters So we've got a real involvement of that site and planning now That's going to be three building 265 megawatt. I'm a real hyperscale campus there And then we've got a site in our cold across from the Google data center, you know, we're 120 megawatt to building campus that we're designing there as well too very good So you're segueing better than I could ever segue myself. So let's talk a little bit about that our cola project What what can you tell our viewers about that one specifically, you know, that's a great one It's a key location. We've got an onsite substation from Dominion in planning right now Market South of Ashburn is really picking up in terms of development and it's a great site that's you know entitled ready to go With power well first delivery early 26, so that's really one of the key sites It's really not about it. I love it. So now for something a little bit more fun I understand that you are partnering with Seven by 24 data center chapter for a 5k race Probably not something that I myself would be doing but why don't you tell us a little bit about the 5k and what that's all about? Yeah, so it's that we're hosting in our power off specific site. So right in the center of data center LA It's seven by 24. It's a DC chapter. There's a local chapter that we're partnering with They've got some amazing folks over there that are doing all the planning and coordination for the race We're doing the easy part. We're just providing a place for them to host it But we're very excited that you know, I live right in Ashburn. I live right down the road You know very active in the data center community and also in our local northern Virginia community as well So love to do events like this where the public can come they can learn about data centers We've got a job fair going on. There's food trucks, you know, and if you love running around big concrete buildings I mean that's that's a place to be Hanging out at big concrete buildings Fine running around them probably not I get it But um Luke one of the things that I am absolutely sure that we are going to be discussing At length over the over 2023 and well beyond that is sustainability Yeah, so why don't you tell us? Uh, why don't you tell us a little bit about? Any sustainability efforts that you uh, you folks might have going on over there at powerhouse? Yeah, yeah, so recently we just joined the iMason's climate board Which which is something, you know, I've been an iMason's member and sustainability has always been one of their four key pillars But you know when they launched the climate accord that was a great opportunity for us to be able to Coordinate with the rest of the industry on what they're doing in standards. So, you know, everyone's got their their own metrics Everyone's tracking different things. So it's very challenging as an industry for us to figure out We don't know if we're getting better if we don't know where we're at So, you know the climate accord really puts everyone on the same page And the other thing it does is it brings the hygroskeleton in the conversation So they've done a very good job of getting those key You know those key customers those those key users in the market that are really driving The demand and driving the change of technology in the marketplace. So, you know, we've got a forum We're working work directly with them to understand, you know, what kind of product they're looking for and how we can help them And their sustainability goals as well I love it. So let's talk more about sustainability. Maybe at the the next show that I see you at sound good Yeah, no, absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Well, luke if the first interview at uh, metro connect 2023 is A litmus test for the rest of the day. I think things are gonna go just fine for us today So thank you for being here today. We appreciate it. Absolutely. You bet and thank you viewers for watching jsa tv. We'll see you soon