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Data Center World 2025

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Solving AI's Most Intractable Problems: People, Power, and Pollution

Rich DiClaudio  (President and CEO, Energy Innovation Center Institute Inc)

Mike Broeker  (Managing Director and President, Bedford Management Partners)

Rhea Williams  (Chief Commerical Officer, E3 Platforms)

Dennis Thompson  (Vice President - Advanced Energy, Amentum)

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Track: Power Sourcing & Sustainability

Session Type: Session

Vault Recording: TBD

Audience Level: All Audiences

This session will offer innovative yet practical solutions to the power, employment, and community development problems facing AI data center facilities. Panelists represent a unique group of leaders and subject matter experts on data center and power systems development and operations, including SMRs and effective, large-scale, disadvantaged community focused workforce development and Justice 40 solutions. A pathway forward to address these real-life issues through effective, cost efficient, and equitable solutions will be discussed and presented.

The session will cover this practical, but challenging design concept:

1). Creating power behind the meter will reduce the impact on the local grid and reduces/eliminates its tendency to drive up electricity prices in region, which negatively impact those that can least afford it.
2). Power stacks that start 30% greener than grid with a development plan that gets them to zero emissions – featuring Amentum and SMRs
3). Co-locate tenants both for power, and to provide many new good jobs in a campus setting, helping support local communities with more than taxes
4). Co-locate an innovative CERT facility to ensure jobs benefit regional disadvantaged communities, women and vets

Takeaway

  • Important actionable solutions to developing new and upgrading existing data centers in ways that support the regional grids, communities, and disadvantaged populations in the immediate area
  • Concepts that drive the best holistic outcomes for data center development worldwide