Matt Moses, co-leader of Barclay Damon’s Nuclear Energy and Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Teams, and Ekin Senlet, co-leader of the Nuclear Energy Team, were featured in the Buffalo Business First article “Law Firm Launches Data Center, Nuclear Energy Teams.” In the article, Matt and Ekin discuss the driving force behind the launch of the two teams.
About the formalization of the Nuclear Energy Team, Matt said, “We represent a significant portion of the power generating industry in New York. We’ve represented virtually every power plant in New York State. This is in our wheelhouse and is a natural complement to what we’ve been doing over the last few decades.”
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has called for a new nuclear plant in Upstate New York by 2040, with sites such as the former Dunkirk coal plant under discussion. Ekin emphasized the long-term impact of these projects, saying, “It modernizes our electricity supply and creates reliability for users. It also shows that the locality can host big infrastructure projects,” while noting the complexity of environmental permitting due to overlapping federal and state regulation.
The Data Center & Digital Infrastructure Team was launched in response to rapid growth in hyperscale data centers driven by artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Matt said, “We’ve represented the compute power side, the landlords that host these data centers, and the developers of the land where they put the data centers,” which, he noted, are incredibly costly to build. Matt also noted that energy demand is the biggest challenge for data centers. “There’s a push to build out hyperscale data centers in the last couple years to meet the demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure.”
Buffalo Business First subscribers can read the full article here.