Foley & Lardner LLP is featured across media for the firm’s 2026 Data Center Development Report exploring the explosive growth within the industry.
Key Takeaways
- Development delays, driven by competition for power, labor, and materials, are slowing data center projects and creating knock‑on effects across construction, financing, and delivery.
- Industry complexity, fueled by rapid expansion and fragmentation, is increasing risk as more parties with tighter interdependencies enter the development chain.
- Public opposition, rising at the political and community levels, is reshaping site selection toward pre‑powered, industrially zoned, or redevelopment‑ready locations.
- Power constraints, particularly limited utility capacity, have become the defining bottleneck, triggering a scramble for long‑term renewable contracts, utility partnerships, and state incentives.
- Long‑term demand, despite near‑term power shortages and bubble concerns, remains durable given data centers’ central role in digital infrastructure and AI growth.
Notable media coverage of Daniel Farris’s commentary is listed below.
- “Q&A: Addressing the energy demands of data centers” – WestLaw Today
- “Data Center Builders, Power Suppliers Duel For Project Needs” – Law360
- Included in Law360’s Real Estate Authority
- “Inside the data center boom webinar” – Panelist, The Business Journals
- Included in MSN
- “Utilities are spending billions on the data center boom. What are the risks?” – Utility Dive
- Included in Yahoo! Finance
- “CBRE’s Kristina Metzger Went From Amateur to Expert in Data Centers” – Commercial Observer
- “Sunday Summary: Show Me the Data Centers!” – Commercial Observer
- “Opposition to Data Centers Has Scrambled the Calculations Behind the Asset” – Commercial Observer
- “Can We Dare To Be Hopeful About Clean Energy?” – CleanTechnica
- “Behind-the-Meter Power Solutions: The Data Center Industry’s New Reality” – Data Center Hawk
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