Kirk Offel

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6,820 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Kirk Offel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Data Center Revolution · Ep 145: Jesse Sargent’s Journey: From Army Infantry to Leading Data Center Workforce · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

Right now, they view it as a box with four walls and a roof that is a massive consumer of utilities and creates no jobs. matched

And that's not true anymore. matched

I agree. matched

So why would people that are listening continue to listen matched

I mean, if they're a parent, they should be, they have nothing to lose and they should be listening to this because they may want their kids to listen to this podcast and use it as a roadmap on how I stumbled into the Navy and got into this industry shortly after I left it and how you got into the army. matched

And I mean, let's be honest, 11 Bravos aren't really designed to be data centers. matched

Introduce yourself to people that don't really know who you are. matched

listening to our employees and trying to make sure we support them is most that's my number one role my number one focus for the employees isn't just supporting them it's looking for their grace because like them they're constantly going to make mistakes and we as leaders make them all the time too so we're learning as we do this but take me back to pig's knuckle ohio yep matched

And you're just a regular, you were a football player and a wrestler in high school. matched

Super. matched

Those markets. matched

HAC is an incredible trade. matched

A hundred percent. matched

And the conditions we put you in weren't necessarily the easiest. matched

No. matched

You were stupid enough to tell me that you'd outwork anybody I knew. matched

That's right. matched

So I challenged the people that work for me to make sure that we, we, we scratched the pain with that, figuring out how much we could pressure test that theory. matched

You knew schedules, but you probably didn't know budgets yet. matched

You've got to get creative every day. matched

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