Data Center Trends: Building Designs, Demand Drivers, and Challenges
Wed Oct 30
9:00 AM — 10:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Blossom ABC
Category
Infrastructure
This session will cover trends in the data center industry, including building design, demand drivers, and challenges. Building design will focus on what makes a data center unique compared to an industrial building. Demand drivers will cover hyperscaler demand for both cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning needs and investor capital inflow. Challenges will focus on power constraints, capital limitations in the debt market, and monetization plans for built campuses.
Speakers
Moderator
Moderator
Managing Director IPI Partners
Matt Weisberg joined IPI in July 2020 and serves as a Managing Director in IPI's development group. He was previously a Senior Director at Tribune Real Estate Holdings (TREH) and a key member of the senior management team that developed and implemented the strategy to reposition and harvest a $1+ billion real estate portfolio comprised of 8 million square feet of office and industrial buildings…
Panelist
Panelist
Vice Chair CBRE
Kristina Metzger is a nationally recognized data center real estate expert in North America, serving as Vice Chairman, CBRE Data Center Capital Markets. Ms. Metzger leads a team of diverse, tenured data center professionals who focus 100% of their time advising domestic and offshore investors in the capitalization, development, acquisition and disposition of data center land and assets. Having been wholly dedicated to the data…
Panelist
Panelist
Chief Executive Officer Skybox Datacenters
Rob Morris brings 16 years of experience in critical facility design, development and operations as co-founder and CEO of Skybox Datacenters. He is a leading expert within the industry completing over 1.2 GW and 3M SF of mission critical projects globally. Rob serves as Assistant Chair on the ULI Data Center Council. Mr. Morris is a graduate of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M…
Panelist
Panelist
STACK Infrastructure
Matthew VanderZanden is the Chief Operating Officer of STACK Infrastructure and represents the voice of the end user, driving STACK's relentless focus on continually innovating its business around the needs of enterprise and hyperscale clients. He heads development and location strategy, product development, marketing, and strategic partnerships. Mr. VanderZanden brings end-user expertise, having spent most of the previous 10 years scaling Facebook's (now Meta's) worldwide…