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All the processes that we had established because the absolute unprecedented volatility and also the huge price level meant that obviously also we were challenged. we had, you know, we had to provide billions of additional working capital to just continue to procure the energy which was rising by a factor of 10 to 20 on the electricity and gas side. here in the uk, e.0n increased prices back in april of last year by around 54% for customers on your standard variable tariff. i mean, what do you say, leo, to your customers during this cost of living crisis? we are trying to actually help them to...

Of the us, something like 2,000 terawatt hours. and it's not only the population and the population growth and globalisation which is driving it, it's also new technology like chatgtp, it uses three times the energy consumption of a google search. now how do we do? what do we do about it? number one, we need to make all datacentres always more energy efficient. and the data centre operators are doing that. and number two, we need to make sure that we use the waste energy out of such data centres, for example, for heating in the neighbourhood. and this is what we as e.0n are doing on a large sc...

Leo, can watching cat videos help heat a city? to a certain extent, yes. but obviously, in the end, you know, it's still energy consumption because it reduces really the total energy demand. yes, it can help to heat the city, but it still means you need to produce energy first somewhere. leo, the war on ukraine has resulted in an unprecedented increase in, you know, energy prices, something many of our viewers are really struggling with. just tell us what that's meant for, for e.0n and how did you adapt as a company to the massive supply and demand changes? yeah, first, it's horrific. what has...

The second effect is that we had to basically change all the processes that we had established because the absolute unprecedented volatility and also the huge price level meant that obviously also we were challenged. we had, you know, we had to provide billions of additional working capital to just continue to procure the energy which was rising by a factor of 10 to 20 on the electricity and gas side. here in the uk, e.0n increased prices back in april of last year by around 54% for customers on your standard variable tariff, i mean, what do you say, leo, to your customers during this cost of ...

Is something called liquid cooling where actually we send, you know, liquid water cooling straight onto the board and into the chipsets that sit within the it. and that means that we're not cooling by blowing air over racks of it, but we're actually removing the heat through water that gets circulated around the, you know, the chips themselves. that has dramatic increasing energy efficiency by applying that technology. well, on that point, gary aitkenhead from equinix, a real pleasure having you on the show. good luck with everything and i'll check in with you soon. my pleasure. thanks. good t...