Energy and Real Estate Law and AI-Driven Data Centers: Navigating Legal and Regulatory Challenges
A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide energy counsel with an in-depth understanding of the energy law issues involved in powering data centers. The panel will discuss the regulatory landscape, energy efficiency requirements, and the integration of renewable energy sources to meet the growing demands of data centers. The panel will also provide insights into the challenges and opportunities in aligning energy infrastructure with the needs of AI-driven data centers.
Outline
- Overview of energy law and data centers
- Energy efficiency and sustainability
- Renewable energy integration
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Federal, state, and local regulations (e.g., Clean Air Act, renewable portfolio standards, zoning laws)
- Carbon footprint and emissions regulations
- Energy procurement contracts and grid interconnection agreements
- Incentives for renewable energy adoption
- Infrastructure-related challenges
- Co-location issues
- Overview of structuring of data center developments
- Key differences between data center developments and “traditional” real estate developments and unique challenges
- Executive Branch initiatives and orders
- Potential Congressional action on permitting, infrastructure, transmission, and energy resources
Benefits
The panel will discuss these and other key issues:
- The regulatory framework for data center energy use and compliance strategies
- Legal considerations for integrating renewable energy sources and enhancing energy efficiency
- Challenges faced by utilities, including infrastructure build times, costs, and system impacts
- Co-location issues such as siting data centers near power plants and overcoming regulatory hurdles
Faculty
Robert da Silva Ashley
Partner
DLA Piper
Mr. da Silva Ashley is a trusted advisor to international and domestic financial institutions, project sponsors... | Read More
Mr. da Silva Ashley is a trusted advisor to international and domestic financial institutions, project sponsors and developers, investment funds and multinational corporations, advising on sophisticated and market-leading complex cross-border and domestic project finance and corporate lending transactions throughout North America and Latin America. He has extensive experience in the renewable energy, infrastructure, hospitality and industrial sectors, guiding clients through the financing of utility-scale wind and solar projects, distributed solar generation, conventional power plants, carbon capture and sequestration facilities, midstream assets, onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and production, chemical plants, and resorts and hotels across the Americas.
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Andrea Chambers
Of Counsel
DLA Piper US
Ms. Chambers focuses her practice on energy regulation and project finance. She has 30 years of experience on... | Read More
Ms. Chambers focuses her practice on energy regulation and project finance. She has 30 years of experience on matters before the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) and has advised on wholesale electric energy markets, natural gas pipelines, and electric. She has represented utilities in restructuring of electricity markets and advised transmission owners regarding all aspects of electric rates and tariffs and assisted renewable generators in matters regarding interconnection with RTO and ISOs in all regions of the country. Ms. Chambers has obtained market-based rate authorization for generation owners and advised renewable generation owners on qualifying facility status and exempt wholesale generation requirements regarding PUHCA. She also has extensive experience counseling clients regarding compliance with FERC compliance and enforcement matters.
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Michael Fleischman
Policy Advisor
DLA Piper
Mr. Fleischman represents clients before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies on matters pertaining to... | Read More
Mr. Fleischman represents clients before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies on matters pertaining to artificial intelligence, national security, space, health, and financial services. For over a decade, policymakers, companies, boards, and investors have relied on him to advance policy prerogatives and ensure government support for critical infrastructure technology. Earlier in his career, Mr. Fleischman was the Deputy Director of Government Affairs for one of the leading advocacy organizations in Washington. In this capacity, he worked to secure over $30 billion in Congressional funding for defense, security assistance, and technologies programs, and he drafted and advanced complex artificial intelligence legislation. Mr. Fleischman also successfully advocated for the establishment at the National Security Council of an international Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology, which includes working groups on artificial intelligence, trusted technology ecosystems, health, and climate change. Relatedly, he has worked with the Executive Branch and foreign governments to develop programs furthering regulatory cohesion of rules, standards, and export controls for artificial intelligence.
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Stacy Ann Osmond
Attorney
DLA Piper
Ms. Osmond concentrates her practice in the areas of joint venture and real estate investment, leasing, real estate... | Read More
Ms. Osmond concentrates her practice in the areas of joint venture and real estate investment, leasing, real estate financing, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate real estate services, the real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions, development and general real estate.
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