Data Center Counsel

Brownfield redevelopment is emerging as a strategic data center siting option, but it comes with significant environmental law considerations. In this episode of the Data Center Counsel podcast, Jared Berg is joined by Bracewell's Jason Hutt and Daniel Pope to discuss brownfield redevelopment as a strategy for siting data centers. They explore what makes former industrial sites attractive, includi...

Data center demand is booming, but getting a project financed is harder than it looks. In this episode of Data Center Counsel, Jared Berg sits down with Jeeseon Ahn, Jared Joyce-Schleimer and Jason Lewis to break down what it actually takes to make a data center project financeable in today’s market. Their conversation covers the financing structures being used for data center development — from t...

In this episode of the Data Center Counsel podcast, Jared Berg and Bryan Clark are joined by Josh Robichaud for a discussion of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in data center development. Josh explains FERC’s role in regulating wholesale power markets and interstate transmission through regional transmission organizations and independent system operators, while states maintain auth...

In this episode of Bracewell’s Data Center Counsel podcast, Scott Segal and Andrew Shaw explore whether nuclear energy can meet the rapidly growing electricity demands of AI-driven data centers. As hyperscale facilities transform electricity demand into a system-level challenge, the discussion examines why nuclear — both large light water reactors and small modular reactors (SMRs) — is uniquely po...

In this episode of the Data Center Counsel podcast, Scott Segal and Tamara McKinzie examine the shifting geography of US data center development. What was once concentrated in traditional hubs like Northern Virginia is rapidly expanding into rural and emerging markets across Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota and parts of the Southeast. Scott and Tamara look at the drivers behin...

In this episode of the Data Center Counsel podcast, Jared Berg and Bryan Clark talk with Ted Duver about the regulatory forces driving data centers to develop on-site, behind-the-meter generation. They examine how long interconnection timelines, grid infrastructure constraints and evolving regulatory frameworks — particularly in PJM and ERCOT — are pushing developers toward greater control over po...

The Data Center Counsel podcast returns for an episode on the evolving legal and regulatory framework governing large-load interconnections in Texas, with a focus on data centers and other energy-intensive facilities. Hosts Jared Berg and Bryan Clark examine how large-load projects have historically connected with the ERCOT grid and explain why a surge in speculative and overlapping interconnectio...

In the inaugural episode of the Data Center Counsel podcast, Bracewell partners Jared Berg and Bryan Clark discuss the factors contributing to extended large-load interconnection timelines in Texas and the implications for data center development. They provide an overview of how the growing demand for electricity — particularly from the oil and gas sector — has affected transmission capacity, gene...