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aWordWithWard: Season 2 Episode #5 JF Berche

Ward Hampton sits down with JF Berche, Chief Commercial Officer at Green Scale, for a fascinating conversation about his journey from basketball player to cloud infrastructure pioneer. JF shares his remarkable career trajectory - from being one of the first hires in AWS's infrastructure organization (celebrating when the team was small enough to fit in a movie theater) to spending a decade at Amazon working on everything from vendor management to AWS Outpost and public sector cloud services, followed by time at Microsoft focusing on regional buildout and OpenAI/GPT capacity. Now leading Green Scale, a European-born data center company backed by DCP, JF discusses why he made the leap back to the sell side after witnessing racks jump from 15kW to 120kW and realizing capacity was becoming the industry's defining challenge. He reveals Green Scale's unique approach with two pillars - "Scale for Good" and "Green Infrastructure" - and their ambitious plans with a 100MW site in Northern Ireland (with on-site substation delivering capacity in late 2026) and another in Norway. The conversation explores critical industry dynamics: how AI is reshaping data center standards as dramatically as cloud did 15 years ago, why GPU infrastructure may only last 3-5 years versus traditional 10-15 year lifecycles, and the stark differences between building data centers in the agile US market versus navigating Europe's fragmented regulatory landscape. JF issues a provocative challenge to the industry: while everyone obsesses over 2025-2027 capacity, nobody's talking about 2028 and beyond, or how commercial cloud and AI infrastructure will need to coexist and potentially become fungible. A must-watch for anyone trying to understand where the data center industry is heading beyond the current AI boom. -- GET IN TOUCH -- ▹Visit our Website:- https://thewayofward.com/ ▹LinkedIn:-   / ward-hampton-b15a4a28