Powerup Data Centers - Infrastructure

PowerUp Data Centers - Infrastructure is an executive-level forum focused on the legal, regulatory, and commercial complexities emerging as hyperscale data center power demand accelerates at an unprecedented pace. With AI-driven load growth straining interconnection processes, reshaping tariff structures, and driving new federal, state, and ISO/RTO policy responses, the frameworks governing how data centers are powered, financed, and permitted are rapidly evolving. This conference examines how developers, utilities, investors, and policymakers are responding to speed-to-power pressures through innovative power supply strategies, novel deal structures, and evolving market rules. PowerUp Data Centers - Infrastructure brings together data center developers, hyperscalers, regulators, utilities, and their advisors to explore where risks are emerging, how capital is being deployed, and what legal, regulatory, and strategic considerations will define the next generation of data center power solutions. The event will bring together data center developers, policymakers, utilities and renewable energy providers to discuss: How policy, energy infrastructure planning, power procurements and energy investments across North America are changing in response to the unprecedented increases in data center demand; The pluses and minuses of using collocated projects, onsite power supplies, microgrids, and other solutions to provide reliable power to data centers NOW; The impacts of new interconnection and transmission planning processes on the timelines for connecting data centers to the grid, and the development of new processes for interconnecting large loads; The roles that gas-fired generation, wind, solar, storage, microgrids, and nuclear power can play in meeting the enormous near term demands of data centers; How the sometimes-competing goals of securing power supplies immediately vs meeting corporate clean energy goals are affecting power supply deals, tariff structures, and local permitting; What investors, lenders, and other players are looking for in terms of contracts, tariffs, and other arrangements in order to finance data center developments and their associated power projects.