 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you today from Data Cloud 2022 here in beautiful Monaco. And joining me is Michael Wall, SVP of construction and development for Europe for Prime Data Centers. Michael, thank you so much for joining us. Good morning, thank you for inviting me. It's great to be here right in person at Data Cloud 2022, I think record attendees at this year's conference and everyone's very excited. For those of our viewers who may not know you, I think we know you well here at JSA, but for our viewers who may not have had the opportunity, can you tell us a little bit about Prime Data Centers? Yes, so Prime Data Centers is a data center provider on both wholesale and hyperscale. We formed in U.S. in 2017 and we've seen our first building was in Sacramento. We've seen some amazing growth in the U.S. around Silicon Valley. That was probably our niche market, our core market. And we now expanded last year and now we're seeing a very big trajectory this year in the U.S. So yeah, that's Prime in a nutshell. Yeah, and I mean, exciting things happening, I think at Prime, I had the opportunity to see you on stage the other night as the proud recipient of the Data Cloud Global Awards, Regional Data Center Excellence for the Americas. So congratulations, first of all, on that. Can you tell us a little bit about what led to that award? Yeah, so many thanks. We're very proud to have received that reward. We were happy also to be on the short list. I mean, it was an honor to be on that short list. From our perspective, for a particular project that we had in the U.S., which was on a very short delivery period, which had some manufacturing or delivery issues, which we were able to absorb and still deliver the project on time was a great achievement for the team. And now to be rewarded for it, I mean, we're super happy. So thank you very much. Yeah, congratulations. It is a huge honor and well deserved, I think. And so you mentioned earlier, just some of the expansions that have been taking place in the United States. I know that you mentioned California, but I think you've expanded into other markets to support the hyperscale customers. Can you talk about that? Yeah, so we have a large facility in Chicago, which we were brought out into the news. We have some more projects in the pipeline, similar sizes, similar type of locations. But we're now looking to, within the next couple of weeks, to be releasing into Europe. So I think about three weeks time, maybe a month, we'll be launching our first facility in Europe. So we're really excited for the growth that we're seeing. Yeah, on that note, I was gonna ask, I mean, maybe you've answered it, right? But I was gonna ask, you know, what is, what are you most excited about as you think about sort of the second half, we're already, I guess, looking towards the second half of 2022 and beyond, what are you most excited about? Well, what's there not to be excited about in this industry? I mean, it's an amazing industry. I've been involved in it for 20 years. I've never seen anything like I've seen at the moment. The, you know, growing with customers, just the volume that we're seeing. I mean, we're gonna concentrate on, on Americas and Europe this year, this year. And then we'll look at other markets, but that will be based on client growth. So we won't speculate, but we will grow in other markets in the future. Fantastic, we look forward to hearing all about it. And thank you, Michael, for joining us today on this last day of Data Cloud 2022. We appreciate your time. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts. Happy networking. Thank you.