Austin, TX
Partner Brennen Keene will serve as panelist at the upcoming PowerUp Data Centers – Infrastructure Conference on the topic “Site Assessment: Determining How Grid Connection, Gas Availability, Fiber Access, and Water Rights Affect Project Viability.”
Partner Marc Nickel will moderate the panel titled “Financing Data Center Power Deals” which addresses how the finance market is changing, what is needed for projects to be creditworthy, and the potential impacts on cost of capital in today’s market.
AI and other data centers seeking power have surged, illustrated by a 300% increase in interconnection requests in ERCOT alone over the course of 2025. The radical increase in the amount of electricity needed to reliably power new data centers is a generational opportunity for the energy industry to grow—and grow profitably. With most data centers seeking vast amounts of power by the 2028-2029 period, speed to power issues are dominating energy policy at the federal level, while state legislators and regulators are responding to public fears of increasing power costs with new policies aimed at changing the dynamics of powering data centers.
For more information, please visit the PowerUp Data Centers – Infrastructure Conference website.