What year was that?

Oh, that's a good question.

We're going back.

15 20 years i'm trying to think of what year that would be i'd have to work that out but we yeah so we came back um we planted a church in actually this this is a weird story the church that my grandfather who went to azusa street um he that came back and was preaching fire they ended up building a church building down in sort of the little the little community that my mother grew up in and he preached there now after he passed away some other family members would do services there and stuff and then and then it just kind of It just sort of closed up, but it was still on my family's property.

And it was there.

There's this church building that wasn't being used.

And so we came back and thought, you know, we feel like we're...

so

How did you arrive in your current role and what problems along the way earlier on in your career convinced you that Bay Compute needs to exist?

Yeah, so I spent time building data centers in the US Marine Corps as an intelligence officer.

And when we got the first AI tool in the entire US military, I was dealing with power bottlenecks from the four deployed locations where all of our different centers were existing.

And really taking manual efforts shutting down HVAC units using daisy chain generators to keep uptime on the systems during critical operations.

and the mitigation efforts that i was using very rudimentary software i ended up meeting a brilliant co-founder out of mit five years later and he said ken you know i wrote software that automates a lot of those manual methods that you did so what we did was we then took a look at the data center industry you know really looking following the electron from the grid all the way to the chip looking at where is there an area of the market that isn't being serviced currently because there are bottlenecks all along the power chain and inefficiencies all along the power chain and really what it came down to was where is there an area that isn't being serviced it's really at the data center itself particularly in colocation environments where they don't have the same tools that a hyperscaler builds in-house and they really have never been incentivized to make these tools themselves because colo has always been someone that is structured like a real estate company it's typically a REIT in the management level And they act like a real estate company when they have filled up their, when they've leased all their contracts, just like filling up a building in real estate, they go and get a new building.

Well, we saw that coming to a head two years ago when we started exploring this environment.

And it was going to become very difficult for data centers to continue to build new buildings because of the backlog with power.

Ken, when you look into your crystal ball over the next 12, 18, 24 months, what do you think is going to significantly change about what you're doing on a day-to-day basis with Growing Bay Compute?