Protecting the Cloud: Data Centre Fire Protection with JCI

So your career in data centers...

It's kind of like, you know, five, 10 years ago, lithium batteries were the flavor of the month.

Data centers are really kind of jumping out as far as fire protection is concerned.

A lot of people are concerned with like water consumption.

How do we protect these facilities? They're so big, they're so wide, they're so vast.

What do you think are some of the biggest challenges in fire protection as a general before we start nitpicking in data centers, fire protection in data centers? So if I

would split the world up, you have NFPA, which isn't just North America, so used heavily throughout the world, where the mindset is Springfield by default.

And then there's the rest of the world where...

There might not be a code requirement for Sprinkler.

So you look at what do I need? And in some areas, your water is strangled.

So you're going to say the cost of then having to get the water there, put water in tanks is a pain.

Different requirements perform differently.

And I think one of the big mistakes some people say is if it's good enough for a hyperscale, hey, if one of those big names chooses to do it, They're clever guys.

I should copy them.

They've got scale and diversity.

If you're an enterprise and you've only got one site, you need to think differently.

And so I'm very much the layers of who can react to an alarm.

Can they firstly just go in with a portable fire extinguisher? If not, I like...

My background was gaseous systems.

In Europe, there's a lot of gaseous systems.

But I understand that most of the world now is sprinkler first.

And if we can't sprinkler, what do we then do?

I noticed in my kind of world travels with the podcast now, which is insane, a lot of places over in Europe and the Middle East are going to the water mist systems.

Are you seeing a lot of benefits for a data center for water mist? Or what are you looking at as far as the best data? If I can go in first and you can then take us upon that, that's why we keep him away and don't only put him in front of the camera.

Yeah.