Data Center World 2025

Adaptive Reuse, employed by the real estate industry for decades, repurposes existing industrial, logistics, commercial and corporate sites for data center use. All of the initial carrier hotels were Adaptive Reuse projects–such as 350 Cermak, 1 Wilshire, 111 8th, 400 S. Akard, and 529 Bryant–but the practice has been falling by the wayside. However, with today's energy and land availability challenges, plus AI's new power density demands, Adaptive Reuse is resurging as a way to reduce time-to-revenue AND achieve massive sustainability impact vis-a-vis circularity. Hear real world examples from marquee data center provider executives and key tips and tricks. This panel will feature three use cases of Adaptive Reuse as a build strategy.

Takeaway

• What Adaptive Reuse is, and assets to look for
• How the technical retrofit process works, and the role of modular site prep requirements
• Sustainability benefits: The extreme reduction of carbon consumption from not having to build, significant carbon saving in the supply chain, and community benefits of reinvigorating an underutilized asset
• The amazing time-to-revenue achieved by not having to design, prep, and build from scratch