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Welcome to the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, telling the story of the data center industry and its future. Our podcast is hosted by the editors of Data Center Frontier, who are your guide to the ongoing digital transformation, explaining how next-generation technologies are changing our world, and the critical role the data center industry plays in creating this extraordinary future.
Bridging the Data Center Power Gap: Utilities, On-Site Power, and the AI Buildout
The Data Center Frontier Show
36 minutes
2 weeks ago
Bridging the Data Center Power Gap: Utilities, On-Site Power, and the AI Buildout
Recorded live at the 2025 Data Center Frontier Trends Summit in Reston, VA, this panel brings together leading voices from the utility, IPP, and data center worlds to tackle one of the defining issues of the AI era: power.
Moderated by Buddy Rizer, Executive Director of Economic Development for Loudoun County, the session features:
Jeff Barber, VP Global Data Centers, Bloom Energy
Bob Kinscherf, VP National Accounts, Constellation
Stan Blackwell, Director, Data Center Practice, Dominion Energy
Joel Jansen, SVP Regulated Commercial Operations, American Electric Power
David McCall, VP of Innovation, QTS Data Centers
Together they explore how hyperscale and AI workloads are stressing today’s grid, why transmission has become the critical bottleneck, and how on-site and behind-the-meter solutions are evolving from “bridge power” into strategic infrastructure.
The panel dives into the role of gas-fired generation and fuel cells, emerging options like SMRs and geothermal, the realities of demand response and curtailment, and what it will take to recruit the next generation of engineers into this rapidly changing ecosystem.
If you want a grounded, candid look at how energy providers and data center operators are working together to unlock new capacity for AI campuses, this conversation is a must-listen.
The Data Center Frontier Show
Welcome to the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, telling the story of the data center industry and its future. Our podcast is hosted by the editors of Data Center Frontier, who are your guide to the ongoing digital transformation, explaining how next-generation technologies are changing our world, and the critical role the data center industry plays in creating this extraordinary future.
