Data Center World 2025

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