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If someone told Trey Travis five years ago he’d be walking the floor of a supercomputing show, he wouldn’t have believed them.
Georgia-based Southeastern Hose, where Travis is VP of operations, manufactures corrugated metal hoses and traditionally serves customers in industries such as steel and petrochemicals. But the hoses have another purpose: providing cooling and exhaust for data centers.
As the adoption of artificial intelligence spurred an acceleration in data center construction, orders for his hoses started to trickle in, turning into a deluge last year with another swell of growth since January.
“It's not that the dam opened,” Travis said. “They just took the dam out of the river and it's flowing like crazy.”
