 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell joining you today, alive from day three of Data Cloud Global Congress and joining me is Sujit Panda, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for BDX. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Bob, and thank you for having us here. It's always a pleasure talking to you and this is just a reiteration of all that we do just to get our name and just to get our customers to know what we are doing in the market. Yeah, I know it's always great catching up with you. There's always a lot happening with BDX and I know this week has been busy. We appreciate you making the time. I know it's a juggle to just even fit everything you want to into this week and how's it been for you? You've had a lot of great conversations. Great, I mean, it's always great to be in Data Cloud. It's one of the events that we like a lot. We get to see a lot of our customers. We get to see a lot of our peers. We get to see a lot of the thought leadership that happens around here. So that's been a great thing and yeah, it's a little tiring. The juggle is a little tiring, but I mean, I feel really excited about this. Yeah, a lot of energy keeps us going, right? Yeah, so as you have been going through your conversations this week, what do you feel are some of the most pressing issues that have been coming up? I think the big piece that, you know, whatever we're seeing here, let's say for example, near home Netherlands, if I look at Apex, Singapore, all the times, all the places, we're seeing that sustainability and the way we look at power usage is one of the big pieces, right? You know, everybody is trying to see when you build a data center, how energy efficient you're going to build it. So there are new norms around it. The second piece is that you don't get, you're not going to get power very easily, right? So you have to kind of prove what are the pieces that you're going to do to ensure that you have the most sustainable power usage, right? So that's one of the pressing issues around sustainability. Then you also have, you know, I see a challenge around skill sets, right? Human capital, right? And that is going to be a challenge which is not going to solve as easily, right? Because you really have to do a lot of heavy lifting about training, skill sets, competency, and so on and so forth in each of the local regions that you're working in. So that's the other challenge that we see. Yeah, I couldn't agree more, both of those topics, in different ways have been coming up and in a lot of discussions that I'm hearing, that we're hearing with our clients and with the industry sustainability, of course, such a big topic where the industry's growing so quickly, but how are we doing it in a sustainable way? And to your second point, and how do we do this? We need to build the teams and we need to build the skills to support the industry. So how's BDX specifically, as you continue to expand, how are you tackling some of those? I think we've been really lucky, right? We've been backed by partners and our shareholders have been amazingly good in terms of looking at sustainability. iSquare Capital has got one of the largest sustainability portfolio, six gigawatts plus. So that's been a good thing to learn from them. The other piece is that what we are also trying to do is, we have been at the forefront in terms of doing academia partnerships to look at ways and means to make things much more sustainable. So we have invested, we are invested with NUS, the National University of Singapore. We are invested with a lot of academia in India. We are investing now with academia in Hong Kong, right? Trying to see how do we take the things that are happening in AI, the things that are happening in automation and the things that are happening in thermodynamics, right? Things that are happening in liquid cooling. How do we bring all of that into our data center practice? And it's been a great partnership that a lot of the government bodies also supporting us in these initiatives. So that's one on the sustainability side. Again, on the skill set side, while internally learning and development is one piece of it, but we also are looking at a lot of diversity, right? An inclusion to help us look at bringing in talent from outside and then training them and retaining them. So diversity has helped us and inclusion. DNI has actually helped us retain talent, right? And the management team specifically believes that if you can have a diverse thought process and you encourage that, right? And you're more inclusive, people will stay on with you. So that's been a great thing. So these are the two things that we're trying to do from an industry perspective. We're going and talking about these things and trying to see how do we bring more people along. Yeah, that's great. It's always great to hear from you, Sujit, and from BDX in general. And I know I wanted to ask just, you know, you had, like, was it last year that you relocated to Singapore? And how's that been for you, making that move? I have not, I don't say that I've relocated because... No, you haven't. BDX, yeah. BDX has relocated? It's been a great move. I think it's a brilliant place to be in, in AIPAC. I see the Singapore government being very, very supportive of local companies. The Singapore government also is, you know, amongst the best, I mean, from a thought leadership perspective in trying to push sustainability, green data centers, right? In spite of the fact that it's a wrong place to do solar or to do wind, right? They simply don't have the land. But the thought leadership is amazing in terms of how do you do grids with different other countries? How do you, how do you propagate renewables and put it on an international grid? So I kind of love the thought leadership that they're bringing into the region. Yeah, and great partnerships as you've already spoken to those, you know, as part of what has come out of that move. So, yeah, thank you. I just wanted to ask you about that. I was more curious than anything, but for the next sort of, I don't know, 12 months or so, what's on the horizon? What are you most focused on? We focused on a lot of expansions, right? You know, obviously because of a lot of NDA-based reasons, I cannot go and talk about that. But we are now moving, the big piece is that we've grown very fast in three years. We've been in four countries, 12 data centers, and nearly around 30 megawatts of power, operational. Suffice to say that we should be in 10 countries, right? Over the next 18 months. Amazing. So, and the power, probably more than triple. Wow, amazing, yeah. It's always exciting to hear from you. I know, you know, we catch up every couple of months or so in amazing places around the world. Absolutely. And so thank you, I appreciate, again, you taking the time today when time is so limited. So thank you. No, it's always a pleasure to be with JSA, the thought leaders, and you guys are doing a great job in getting the message across industry. The Green Data Center books, talking about these kind of things. So I really love being with you guys. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for saying that. You have me speechless, but thank you. That's a great way to end. Actually, our last interview here today to Data Cloud Global Congress. So thank you, and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. This is a wrap, I think, for our live interviews that we've been having over the course of three days here in Monaco at Data Cloud Global Congress. So thank you all who have tuned in, and thank you. We'll see you again soon on JSA TV Live. Until then.