Wes Cummins

looked for data center capacity.

We ended up leasing data center capacity from three different data center companies, and we were deploying GPUs.

But what I realized pretty quickly was there was not very much data center capacity.

And so what we decided at that point, I went back to my team, my data center design team, and I said, hey, guys, I know we're talking about 10, maybe 15 megawatt builds.

We need to go back to building hundreds of megawatts of data center capacity.

So

During the summer of 23, we designed a 100 megawatt facility.

We worked with the NVIDIA's data center design team.

We worked with the Cray unit over at HPE because we're trying to figure out, hey, what do we design?

And what we designed to was, it wasn't called Blackwell at the time, but it ended up being named Blackwell.

It had a numbered name, if I remember correctly.

And so we designed to that.

We broke ground in October of 23.

And my idea at that time was,

We want to serve hyperscalers.

How do we get to the serving of hyperscalers?

I think they're going to need this capacity.

If we build the capacity and when they need it, we have it, we'll get into that business.

And that's really what has happened.

So we spent 23, 24 and some 25 building that capacity.