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GREATER OMAHA CHAPTER CHAPTER - Jun 26, 2025

Summer Speaker Discusses Scott Data Center Solutions

In June, Kenneth Moreano, president and CEO, Scott Data Center, Omaha, Nebraska, took time to apprise the chapter assembly on the attributes of the Scott Data Center and how it has evolved. Moreano exclaimed admiration for Walter Scott Jr., what he has done to foster education via scholarships and for supporting the development of the Scott Data Center. The center was initially built to host the U.S. Department of Defense. It was intended to be a defense collaboration area for the collocation of military, industry and academia. The facility boasted a Tier III Uptime Certification, meaning it could undergo maintenance and repairs without causing downtime for the information technology (IT) operations it supports. Since 2006, the center has had no outages of equipment with 100% uptime. Moreano commented that the center has grown to provide support to 110 customers at multiple U.S. locations. They have grown to provide consultancy for designers and owners in the data center space. They help others build strategies to support their own customized data requirements. The center has had to upscale its team to provide these services.

Moreano pointed out that a 2025 report established artificial intelligence (AI) as a driving force across industry, requiring control and governance of the data and the underlying infrastructure that powers it. Moreano talked about how AI is the new operating system for business. Businesses need to appropriately scale their AI initiatives through a robust and adaptable IT infrastructure. The center was built to serve as a partner that removes the real obstacles to AI transformation. Moreano discussed how the center is a preferred NVIDIA Cloud Partner, operating at 800+ H100 GPUs, facilitating optimal performance in AI and machine learning workloads. Moreano stated that the illusion of simplicity is not the tech, but rather everything around the tech that makes it work. Moreano mentioned that often, companies will wait to see what happens before taking any action, while others are like Wile E. Coyote, busy doing a myriad of tasks, but nothing is really being accomplished.

Moreano referred to his Scott team as being the little guys, but scrappy. He concluded with these words of wisdom: "Engage with the appropriate guardrails to extract real value and content."

Event Photographs:

Thomas Merkle, chapter president (r), shakes hands with Kenneth Moreano, president and CEO, Scott Data Center, Omaha, Nebraska. Moreano was the speaker for the June luncheon and received a Greater Omaha Chapter coin for addressing the chapter.
Thomas Merkle, chapter president (r), shakes hands with Kenneth Moreano, president and CEO, Scott Data Center, Omaha, Nebraska. Moreano was the speaker for the June luncheon and received a Greater Omaha Chapter coin for addressing the chapter.

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