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Can data centers be good neighbors?

Paul Quigley, Chief Strategic Relations Officer at AIRSYS North America
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Paul Quigley, Chief Strategic Relations Officer at AIRSYS North America

Our state has had a few major economic development announcements regarding data centers but recently we’ve also been hearing a lot about data centers "taking" from the community — specifically power and water. Our next guest’s company is right in the middle of this argument. Mike Switzer interviews Paul Quigley, with AIRSYS North America in Greer, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.