• Assessing the demand curve, infrastructure constraints, and delivery pressures shaping AI data center growth
• Identifying the decisions that will define which projects move first and which stall
• Understanding what leaders should prioritize now to protect 2026 to 2027 timelines

• Breaking down how load requests are evaluated and what drives utility and regulatory timelines
• Clarifying where project teams lose time across the approval and coordination process
• Showing how sponsors can plan more realistically against actual utility decision points

• Exploring the practical steps that shorten delivery timelines for AI and other high-density projects
• Comparing interconnection planning, substation readiness, sequencing, and early design decisions
• Highlighting what separates projects that move quickly from those that create avoidable delay

• Examining cost allocation and commercial structures across developers, utilities, colocation operators, and hyperscalers
• Understanding how teams are handling upgrade exposure without slowing delivery
• Sharing approaches that reduce stranded capital risk while keeping projects financeable

Three short case studies focused on what changed, what time was saved, and what it took to make it happen. Speakers will share the critical path decisions that reduced risk across permits, power, procurement, and commissioning, with perspectives from a developer, utility, and OEM on each case.

1. Shortening Time to Power: What Is Working Now
2. Delivery Decisions That Protect Schedule and Scale
3. Removing Bottlenecks from Data Center Execution

• Reviewing the supply constraints affecting transformers, switchgear, generators, cooling systems, and specialist services
• Explaining how delivery teams are protecting schedules in a tight equipment market
• Sharing tactics for reducing procurement risk before it reaches the commissioning phase

• Comparing EPC, CMAR, and owner-direct procurement models through the lens of accountability and delivery control
• Understanding where commissioning ownership should sit when timelines tighten
• Showing how teams are structuring contracts to reduce late-stage execution risk

Move from presentation to problem‑solving in these highly interactive, peer‑driven roundtables. Each table tackles a different Georgia “speed to power” challenge, with practical takeaways captured for the post‑conference report.

Roundtable leaders will open with a brief 5-minute introduction and a short overview of the topic, which can include a case study, lessons learned, or an industry update. This is followed by a 30-minute peer discussion, with the leader facilitating questions, feedback, and practical exchange. Summary per topic capturing key risks, mitigations, and next step actions. The final 5 minutes are dedicated to aligning on five clear industry recommendations which will be included the post-conference report.

• Time to Power Planning and Sequencing
• Grid Upgrades, Cost Allocation, and Risk Sharing
• On-Site Power Options: Where They Help and Where They Do Not
• Cooling and Water Strategy: Constraints, Trade-Offs, and What Projects Need to Prove
• Procurement, Commissioning, and Readiness
• Connectivity Critical Path: Fiber, OSP/ISP, and Time to Service
• Permitting and Environmental Review: What Prevents Delay
• Contracting Structures and Supply Chain Playbooks
• Building for Community Support and Local Credibility

• Exploring how communities are responding to data center growth across water, cooling, land use, traffic, and noise
• Identifying what builds credibility early and what weakens support before projects are underway
• Showing how developers, utilities, and public stakeholders can align sooner and more credibly

• Examining how project teams are earning approvals while responding credibly to local concerns
• Understanding what speeds decisions and what creates avoidable friction in the permitting process
• Highlighting how to keep delivery moving without damaging trust or public support

Examining how AI workload profiles are changing power density, redundancy expectations, and operational planning

Understanding what this means for future-ready infrastructure and design decisions

Highlighting the implications for teams building to support denser and more variable loads

• Comparing liquid, hybrid, and closed-loop approaches through the lens of deployment and operational practicality
• Assessing which performance metrics leaders can credibly stand behind as density rises
• Clarifying how cooling choices affect readiness, resilience, and long-term operating confidence

• Reviewing the fiber, duct bank, and inside-plant requirements that shape time to service
• Identifying the most common blockers that delay turn-up and handover
• Showing how teams are sequencing connectivity earlier to avoid late-stage disruption

• Separating correlation from causation in operational decisions, for avoiding costly misreads in high stakes environments

• Connecting AI outputs to real drivers, for improving confidence in actions taken under time pressure

• Building feedback loops between users and model owners, for preventing drift and maintaining reliability over time

• Standardizing decision templates and thresholds, for accelerating replication across sites

• Assessing which locations and corridors are gaining momentum and why
• Separating genuinely buildable sites from speculative activity and weak-readiness markets
• Highlighting the infrastructure and jurisdiction factors that matter most in site selection

• Walking through an end-to-end project journey from land and power strategy to commissioning and handover
• Connecting early development choices to downstream delivery outcomes
• Demonstrating what has to align across the full lifecycle to reach energization on schedule

• Examining how gas, storage, and hybrid systems are being deployed alongside the grid
• Understanding where these options improve speed, resilience, or flexibility and where they do not
• Highlighting the trade-offs leaders need to weigh when planning future capacity

• Separating what is realistic from what is still emerging across power, delivery, infrastructure, and operations
• Assessing which assumptions leaders can plan around with confidence
• Identifying the signals that will shape the next phase of data center growth

• Pulling together the delivery, infrastructure, and coordination priorities that matter most after the conference
• Defining the next actions needed across developers, utilities, operators, and suppliers
• Turning the discussion into a clearer set of post-event priorities for the market