The US data center industry is experiencing its fastest period of growth to date, driven by AI infrastructure, hyperscale cloud expansion, and increasingly power-dense computing environments. As AI campuses continue to exceed 100MW and rapidly move toward gigawatt-scale developments, the industry’s greatest challenge is no longer demand—it is delivering capacity fast enough while securing power, land, supply chains, and skilled resources.

With Dallas and the wider Texas market at the center of this expansion, this year’s forum will examine the engineering, construction, and development strategies required to accelerate delivery without compromising resilience, quality, or long-term operational performance.

Key discussions will focus on reducing time-to-power through integrated planning, utility engagement, and substation development; designing AI-ready facilities with high-density power architectures and liquid cooling; optimizing site selection, entitlement, and campus master planning; improving construction productivity through modularization and prefabrication; and strengthening supply chain resilience for critical electrical and mechanical equipment.

The agenda will also address large-scale project execution, sustainability in data center construction, balancing speed-to-market with long-term operational efficiency, standardization across hyperscale portfolios, and closer collaboration between developers, designers, contractors, utilities, and equipment manufacturers to deliver increasingly complex projects.

Bringing together senior executives responsible for development, design, construction, operations, engineering, site strategy, and infrastructure investment, the forum provides a closed-door platform to exchange practical experience, benchmark delivery models, and explore the solutions shaping the next generation of AI and hyperscale data center infrastructure across North America.