What is driving the growth of urban data centers and the emergence of the edge in the industry? Over the past decade as growth in the cloud has created an enormous remote campus—latency becomes an increasing concern—today, hyperscalers have been coming back to urban environments from the farm fields. This overlap with the urban environment presents challenges and unique design opportunities for today’s data centers. You’ll hear about emerging trends from thought leaders in real estate, architecture and engineering with recent case stories.

Mark Bauer (bio)
Managing Director
JLL

Joshua Fluecke (bio)
Principal
Syska Hennessy Group

Jackson Metcalf (bio)
Senior Associate, Global Facilities Leader
Gensler