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The QTS Experience — 103 episodes

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Ep 249. The Atlanta Conn3ct Data Summit 2026

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Ep. 248: Cosme Garcia - A Wrench Still Beats a Backflipping Robot, and Other Useful Truths

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Ep. 247: The Gigawatt Era Is Here: Bill Kleyman on Power, Bravery, and Fearless Curiosity

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Ep. 246: Building the Infrastructure of Humanity: Ojonimi Bako on AI, Construction, and Purpose

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Ep245: Ivo Ivanov: AI, Interconnection, and Why Latency Is the New Currency

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Ep244 Rob Coyle - Stop Hoarding Your Tech - Why a Bigger Pie Beats a Secret Recipe

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Ep243: Jason Coe on the People Chain – Making sure your team actually cares about the mission

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Ep 242 Roy Illsley: The Digital Independence Era— Your Local Infrastructure is Your Competitive Edge

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Ep241: David Quirk — Liquid Cooling Chaos, AI Reality, and the Future of Data Centers

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Ep240: Brian Smith: Nuclear’s Sexy Glow—The Exquisite Power Fueling the AI Revolution!

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Ep239: Robert Bryan: Nuclear Renaissance, SMR Realities, and Squeezing the Atom!

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Ep 238: Dan Golding: SMRs, Fusion, and Why Your Data Center is Just a Cold White Box

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Ep237: Jim McDermott on the Digital Monroe Doctrine, Power, and Data Gravity

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Ep236: Steve Altizer—From Big Boxes to Smart Modules: The New Data Center Frontier

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Ep235: Santiago Suinaga – From Mexico City Gamer Kid to Data Center Titan

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Ep 234: Rose Weinschenk – From Minds to Megawatts: A Human Scientist and Data Center Whisperer

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Ep233: Kurt Lindorfer – “Shaking Things Up with Seismic Smarts & Data Center Swagger”

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Ep232: Manja Thessin: Densification Drama– Fiber Highways to AI Superhighways; Squeeze in More Chaos

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Ep231: Joe Rozza – The Power of Purpose, Water, and Sustainable Innovation

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Ep230: Brent Trenga: Recovering Architect Redefines Building – Circularity, Data Centers, & Legos

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Ep229: Luke Saladyga: Submarine Officer to Oracle Innovator–Systems Engineering, Data Centers, & AI

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The QTS Experience 228: with Joel Chakkalakal; Waste, Recycling, and the tubing at Schlitterbahn

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Episode 227: Raiford Smith – Balloon Dogs, Grid Stress, and Data Center Ingenuity

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Episode 226: Cathal Quinn – From Rooftops to Resilience: Data Centers, Mental Health & Irish Grit

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Episode 225: Sean James: Data Centers, Green Tech, and AI Adventures

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Episode 224: Dagi Berhane – Building Data Centers Where There’s No Power, Water, or Patience

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Episode 223: Julie Fedorchak – AI, Energy Policy, and Other Energy Lessons (or How to Not Get Run Out of Town)

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Episode 222: Joshua (JP) Buzzell: Abundance, AI, and Next-Gen Data Center Innovation

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Episode 221: John Coster — Systems Thinking, AI Disruption, and Why Philosophers Make Great Technologists

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Episode 220: Jim Gao – AI, Data Centers, and the Peanut Butter Apocalypse

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Episode 219: Carrie Goetz – Tech Careers, Mentorship & The Future of Digital Infrastructure

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Episode 218: Dr. Paul Root Wolpe | Conflict Resolution, AI, and Building a More Peaceful Future

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Episode 217; Dan Crosby; Powering the Future – Dan Illuminates the Path to Smarter Energy and Data Centers

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Episode 216: Craig Pennington; AI, Liquid Cooling, and How to Save a Data Center (& Your Marriage?)

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Episode 215: Christine King, Chris Lohse; Nuclear Energy: Big Risks, Bigger Rewards, & Gummy Bears?

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Episode 214: Grandma Stocks and Dragon Flames: Cooling the AI Heatwave with Vertiv’s Greg Stover

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Ep 213: James Walker; Unlocking the Future of Nuclear: Microreactors, Safety Myths, and Salmon Fishermen

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Episode 212: Jeff Barber; Powering the Data Center Future: Fuel Cells, Microgrids, and the Hunt for Mr. Fusion

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Episode 211: Adam Black; Building Leaders, Breaking Barriers, and Why Safety is a Love Language

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Episode 210: Peter Gross; Data Centers on the Edge: AI Disruption, Nordic Advantages, and Golf in Iceland

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Episode 209: Scott Bergs; Dark Fiber, Innovation, and Riding Pigs on the Prairie

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Episode 208: Ciaran Flanagan– Digital Twins, AI, & the Energy Trilemma: Molding Data Centers for Tomorrow

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Episode 207: Buddy Rizer; Rewriting the Data Center Playbook: Innovation, Sushi & Community Tango

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Episode 206: Bill Kleyman; AI Powerhouses, Data Center Evolution, and Bravery in a Shifting Industry

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Episode 205; Jon Trout, AI, Bridging Willing to Able, Building Peanut Butter Sandwiches

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Episode 204: Mark Gusakov; The Human Side of Data Centers; Building Community, Fostering Wellness:

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Episode 203; Brian Jabeck; The Power Dilemma, Workforce Enablement, Community, Nuclear Energy

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Episode 202; David Liggitt, Datacenter Hawk, Emerging Datacenter Markets, Self Generation, Changing Datacenter Landscape

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Episode 201; Geoff Bland, Lifecycle Power, Microgrids, Dispatchable Power, AI Workloads, Data Centers

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Episode 200; Gautham Gnanajothi, Frost & Sullivan, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Centers, Sustainability, Infrastructure, Optimization

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Episode 199; Allen Meeks Data Centers, Fiber Networks, Legacy Infrastructure, AI, Innovation

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Episode 198; Tony Grayson; Networking, AI, Data Centers, Edge Computing, Infrastructure

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Episode 197; Patton Lochridge; Shannon’s Limit, Fiber Scarcity, The New Deployment model, Future of Fiber

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Episode 196; Carlos Francisco; Current Threat Landscape, Data Center, Physical Security, Ninjas

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Episode 195; Chris Menier; AI Hallucination, Localization, Data Sovereignty, AI Disruption

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Episode 194, David Meadows; Immersion and Direct to Chip Cooling, Sustainability, Regulation

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Episode 193: Rebecca Weekly; AI Hype Cycles, Open Compute, Hardware Innovation, Data Sovereignty

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Episode 192; Sarah Keller; Innovation Curve, AI, Uber, Augmenting Humans, Ethics

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Episode 191; Intuitive Construction, AI, Doxel, Trade Flow, Data Center.

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Episode 190 Melissa Olson: Smart Infrastructure, Liquid Cooling, Future Engineering

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Episode 189: Dave Bell: Microgrids, Power, Sustainability, Data Center

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Episode 188; Darwesh Singh: Ray Tracing, GPU, Data Center

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Episode 187; Kamaljeet Sanghera, PhD: Data Center, Higher Education, Future Talent

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Episode 186; Sam Prudhomme: Data Center Site Selection

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Episode 185; Dan Flores: Learning Lessons from our past to protect our future.

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Episode 184; Mike Netzer: Predicting the unpredictable world of Data Center Growth

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Episode 183; Alan Howard: Small Modular Reactors, Data Centers, Sustainability

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Episode 182: Adam Levine

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Episode 181; Sebastian Moss: The Stories of the Data Center Industry

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Episode 180; Daniel Kahneman: Artificial Intelligence and Intuition, Future Humans

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Episode 179; Jim Carroll: The Optimistic and Practical Future

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Episode 178; Dean Bubley: The Metaverse for Dolphins, The Future of Wi-Fi, 6G vs 5G

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Episode 177: Anna Erickson

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Episode 176; Danielle Rossi: Liquid Cooling, Data Center Design, Sustainability and Efficiency

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Episode 175; Devlin Liles: The first to Generative AI wins everything ever, Fake News, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Mental Health

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Episode 174; Paul Webb: Formula 1, Artificial Intelligence, Formula E, Simulation and the need for Faith

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Episode 173: Atlanta Technology Professionals (ATP)

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Episode 172; Christine King: Nuclear Innovation, Remaining Curious, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Communities

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Episode 171; Mattias Fridström: Shannon’s Limit, The Middle Mile, and Telecom Security

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Episode 170; Nikolas Badminton: The “What If”, Foresight and Trends, AI and Future Tech

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Episode 169; Kirk Offel: Datacenters, Default Aggressive Mindset, 5th Industrial Revolution, Embracing Failure, Serving the Veteran Community

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Episode 168; Brian Moon: Pacific Telecommunications Council, Advancing Telecom, The Spirit of Aloha and Ohana

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Episode 167; Garry Golden: The Fear of Thinking in Abstract Terms, AI Avatars, Parenting, and the Slow Pace of Fast Change.

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Episode 166; Dr. John Zerilli: AI in the Legal System, Emotional response to ChatGPT, ML Bias.

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Episode 165; Travis Wright: Data Centers and Nuclear Energy, Energy Storage

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Episode 164; Gerd Leonhard: Technology and the future of Humanity

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Episode 163; Einat Weiss: AI, Machine Learning, Personalized Customer Experience, The Future Marketplace

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Episode 162; Dr. Albert Meige: Magic Shows, Complex Problems, Algorithmic Bias, Generative AI, ChatGPT, Existential Risk

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Episode 161; Dr. David Maimon: the Darkweb, Evidenced Based Research, Cybercrime, Future Law Policing

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Episode 160; Jon Trout: Digital Infrastructure, Chaos, Future Work, Cultural Stigmas, Operational Clarity

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Episode 159; Larry Hack: Extreme IT, Extreme Sport, Wingsuit, Cave Diving

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Episode 158; Lawrence Gasman: Quantum Computing and Quantum Encryption

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Episode 157; Dr. Avi Loeb: Sentient AI, The Enigma of Oumuamua, Aliens and Scientific resistance, AI Spaceships, The purpose of the Universe

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Episode 156; Dr. Kendal Hartley: Implications of Technology on Learning; ChaptGPT, Smartphones, Self-Regulated Learning

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Episode 155; Dean Nelson: Modern Economy, Digital Infrastructure, Future Work, Sustainability, Data Centers

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Episode 154; Yash Mehta: Architecture, Future Buildings, OpenAI, 3D Printing, New Engineering

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Episode 153; Dr. Neale Martin: Dystopia, Executive mind Vs Habitual Mind; Unconscious Bias, Technology and Habits

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Episode 152; Dr. Richard Wright: Future of Crime, Crypto Currency, Cashless Society, Street Crime

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Episode 151; Sarah Keller: Uber, Leadership, Future Work, Breaking Stereo Types

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Episode 150; Brian Magerko Open AI, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Deep Learning

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Episode 149; Michael Lotfy

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Episode 148; Brent Bensten

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James Cage; Episode 147