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Driven by AI, cloud computing, and high-performance workloads, data centers have moved to the center of investment, infrastructure planning, and strategic decision-making, creating new pressures and opportunities across power, financing, construction, regulation, and operations. Our newest edition of Telescope explores the practical challenges and strategic opportunities shaping the sector, offering actionable guidance on how these connected issues are influencing development, investment, transactions, and risk management across digital infrastructure. In this edition, we cover: power and site selection: how access to power could shape your growth plans, financing and project viability regulation and resilience: what evolving rules, such as NIS2, DORA and resilience frameworks, could mean for your governance and compliance approach planning, grid and energy pressure: how constraints in key markets could affect development timelines, sustainability commitments and long-term strategy investment and M&A priorities: why power, cooling and engineering capability are increasingly important to deal value and execution construction and delivery risk: how complex commissioning, equipment shortages and advanced facilities could affect delivery models and contracts insurance and risk transfer: how AI-led developments could change your approach to risk allocation, insurance and capital solutions We hope you enjoy reading this edition. Please get in touch with our Technology & Digital team if you would like to discuss any of the topics further. 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Read our latest thought leadership report for practical insights from our global team of lawyers on the forces reshaping digital infrastructure and the legal, regulatory, and commercial issues emerging across the data center market.

Driven by AI, cloud computing, and high-performance workloads, data centers have moved to the center of investment, infrastructure planning, and strategic decision-making, creating new pressures and opportunities across power, financing, construction, regulation, and operations.

Our newest edition of Telescope explores the practical challenges and strategic opportunities shaping the sector, offering actionable guidance on how these connected issues are influencing development, investment, transactions, and risk management across digital infrastructure.

In this edition, we cover:

power and site selection: how access to power could shape your growth plans, financing and project viability
regulation and resilience: what evolving rules, such as NIS2, DORA and resilience frameworks, could mean for your governance and compliance approach
planning, grid and energy pressure: how constraints in key markets could affect development timelines, sustainability commitments and long-term strategy
investment and M&A priorities: why power, cooling and engineering capability are increasingly important to deal value and execution
construction and delivery risk: how complex commissioning, equipment shortages and advanced facilities could affect delivery models and contracts
insurance and risk transfer: how AI-led developments could change your approach to risk allocation, insurance and capital solutions

We hope you enjoy reading this edition. Please get in touch with our Technology & Digital team if you would like to discuss any of the topics further.

Eversheds Sutherland takes all reasonable care to ensure that the materials, information and documents, including but not limited to articles, newsletters, reports and blogs (""Materials"") on the Eversheds Sutherland website are accurate and complete. However, the Materials are provided for general information purposes only, not for the purpose of providing legal advice, and do not necessarily reflect the present law or regulations. The Materials should not be construed as legal advice on any matter.

The Materials may not reflect the most current legal developments. The content and interpretation of the Materials and the law addressed in the Materials are subject to revision.

No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made as to the accuracy or completeness of the Materials and therefore the Materials should not be relied upon. Eversheds Sutherland disclaims all liability in respect of actions taken or not taken based on any or all of the contents of the Materials to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Materials are not intended to be comprehensive or to include advice on which you may rely. You should always consult a suitably qualified Lawyer/Attorney on any specific legal matter.

Any views expressed through the Materials are the views of the individual author and may not reflect the views of Eversheds Sutherland or any other individual Lawyer/Attorney.