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As AI data center growth accelerates, community opposition is shifting from local disputes to lawsuits, regulation, and political action, emerging as a new constraint on infrastructure development.

GPC Infrastructure CEO Jim Summers explains why hyperscalers have stopped waiting on the grid, and what it takes to deliver power for data centers at AI scale.

A new TD Cowen survey shows enterprise AI has moved beyond experimentation and into embedded operations, setting up the next surge in data center demand.

At DCW26, innovation wasn’t just about bigger ideas, although it was that. But it was also about amplifying and refining what actually gets built. As AI infrastructure scales, innovation is scaling from components to systems; spanning power, cooling, connectivity, and deployment models.

In 2025, XL Batteries commissioned its Organic Flow Battery™ in partnership with Stolthaven...

At Data Center World, Omdia analysts argued that the AI infrastructure buildout is no longer just a hyperscaler story. It is becoming a broader, more power-hungry transformation that is reshaping everything from rack design to onsite generation and long-duration battery storage.

Omdia analysts Vlad Galabov and Shen Wang outline the scale and power demands of the AI data center...