Data centers—and every element involved in creating and running them—are in sharp focus as the drivers of business infrastructure with the dawn of artificial intelligence (AI). As states compete to attract hyperscale data center development, Barclay Damon’s multidisciplinary Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Team brings together attorneys with extensive knowledge and experience in their respective fields to support investors, developers, operators, power generators, and utilities with high-caliber legal counsel, business guidance, and community engagement.
Barclay Damon’s Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Team has roots in the power generation and utility industries and the experience needed to take data center projects from inception to operation—from initial site acquisition and navigating the state, federal, and local permitting processes, through supply chain coordination and construction, to operation and regulatory compliance. Throughout the entire site acquisition and development processes, our attorneys help navigate complex environmental and permitting regimes, co-location issues, grid interconnection, and tax incentive programs to control development, financing, and operating costs while managing the risks associated with capital deployment.
Whether digital infrastructure development is proposed in the interest of supporting AI, cloud data, enterprise systems, crypto mining, or co-located generation, our team is prepared to support and guide clients through the unique circumstances associated with environmental, energy transition, and development challenges.
Our team regularly works alongside national financing and M&A counsel on state and local matters for complex permitting and development projects. We have decades of experience with energy and regionally significant projects culminating in an organized, efficient, business-oriented approach to advanced development. Specifically, members of our Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Team have experience with: