RFI Q3 2024 CC, post 16:
Moderator: Our next question comes from Art Brady. Please state your question.
AB: Hi, Joe. Art Brady here.
JH:: Hey, Art.
AB: About 3 weeks ago, Hitachi mentioned that they are expanding into the building of new data centers. And I'm wondering if any of this has come across your desk?
JH: Well, you got to look at which division of Hitachi did that. Hitachi is like General Electric. Hitachi Chemical, which was sold to Showa Denko, which has now been named Resnerac is a different division.
And I'm not really sure these data centers would be ideal places for this because they typically don't have windows. So, I'm not sure why they would put it there. But look, I've been wrong about many things. I could be wrong about that too.
AB: What they're trying to do is to build these data centers in areas where there are very strong amounts of oil fields so that they could generate power very readily?
JH: Right. But the thing to think about, Art, is whether the building itself needs SPD if it doesn't have any windows. And I think that for the most part, if you're building a data center, you're going to probably want to make it like a bomb shelter, which means no windows, very thick concrete and other things.
So, we'll see, but I don't think it's the low hanging fruit at least.
AB: Another question I have is, you used to have when we had meetings and as you walked into the meeting, you had a couple of Lincoln cars that had SPD in them. Anything happen with Lincoln that we can hook up with them again?
JH: Yes. Well, we keep good contact with the whole Ford organization and I've been there many, many times even since the Lincoln, down car the Continental came out in concept with our stuff. So you keep in contact with everyone, you work with everyone, you try to understand their needs and then you figure out the best licensees to help them achieve those needs and that's pretty simple, but straightforward approach to all the automakers.
AB:Okay. Thank you.
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