Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE): West
Exploring The Latest Development, Infrastructure, Technology and Industry-Wide Trends Around Data Centers in California and Beyond
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Event Ended On: Wednesday December 3 2025
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Speakers and Panels
State Of The West Coast Data Center Market: Navigating Growth In 2025 And Beyond
Financing the Future: Adapting Capital Strategies for Surging Demand
Redefining Reach: Innovating Site Selection for the Edge Era
Advancing Cooling: Meeting High-Density Demands
From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
Keynote - The Unseen Future: Forces Reshaping Data Centers and AI
From Deal to Delivery: Mitigating Risk Across Planning, Build, and Beyond
Bakty Motiram
Paul Vaccaro
The Power Factor: Grid, Growth & the Future of Data Center Expansion
Cisha Adams
The San Jose–PG&E Keynote Conversation
Smart Construction: Design Innovation, Efficient Development and Scalable Builds
Why You Can't Miss this Conference
What You'll Learn:
- How are land constraints shifting developer strategies in power-intensive regions?
- What role do hybrid power models and utility collocation play in enhancing site feasibility?
- What strategies are developers using to stay on schedule and budget amid rising costs and regulatory landscapes?
- How can firms build for long-term resilience in a climate marked by power and water scarcity?
- In an era of compressed timelines, how do modular construction solutions compare with traditional builds?
- Can legacy data center sites be adapted effectively for AI-heavy workloads, such as GPU clusters?
- What cooling, density, and energy trade-offs emerge when retrofitting existing infrastructure versus constructing anew?
- How can operators extend asset lifecycles without degrading performance or efficiency?
- How do you ensure that vendors are assets, not liabilities—especially during high-pressure build cycles?
- What are the key benchmarks for ensuring contractor and supplier accountability in fast-moving projects?
- How do you safeguard timelines, budgets, and uptime through smarter vendor coordination and engagement?
- What fundamentally distinguishes an AI-ready facility from a traditional data center build?
- How do you architect for unprecedented power densities while maintaining safety and performance?
- Are current infrastructure models evolving quickly enough to match AI’s exponential compute demand?
How You’ll Do More Business From Attending This Conference:
Gain insider strategies to overcome West Coast infrastructure bottlenecks and fast-track your data center projects. Discover how to deploy modular and adaptive construction methods, secure agile financing, and integrate power-resilient site planning. Walk away with the partners, frameworks, and forward-looking insights to execute projects smarter, scale efficiently, and lead through market constraints.
Who You’ll Network With:
- Developers & Operators — owners, facility engineers, and site planners building the next wave of high-density facilities
- Hyperscalers & Edge Innovators — technology leaders driving AI compute, distributed networks, and latency-critical solutions
- Financiers & Investors — private credit partners, sustainability fund managers, and infrastructure investors enabling region-wide growth
- Utility & Energy Strategists — leaders in utility planning, microgrid deployment, and renewable integration
- Vendors & Service Providers — modular build experts, cooling innovators, smart infrastructure technologists, and automation specialists
- Policy & Regulatory Experts — state and local policymakers, planning officials, and ESG advisors influencing siting and regulatory frameworks
- Last year's attending companies — Meta, Google, Microsoft, Equinix, Digital Realty, STACK Infrastructure, NTT Global Data Centers, CyrusOne, Aligned Data Centers, Prologis, Salesforce, US Bank, Vantage Data Centers, Prime Data Centers, QTS, DataBank, AVAIO Capital, Primary Digital Infrastructure, Thor Equities, PowerHouse Capital Partners, Western Asset Management, Eastdil Secured
Relevant News and Developments:
- City of San José Announces Historic Agreement with PG&E, Positioning San José as West Coast’s Premier Data Center Hub
- Big Tech, Power Grids Take Action to Reign in Surging Demand
- Californians See Crackdown on Power-Guzzling Data Centers
- Tech-Savvy California Is Still Figuring Out Data Centers
- Equinix Enters Multiple Advanced Nuclear Deals to Power Data Centers
- Big Tech, power grids take action to reign in surging demand
- The Edge Data Center Market: Growth, Trends, and Future Outlook
- Site Selection Considerations for Hyperscale Data Centers
- Modular Data Center Market Report
- Modular Prefabricated Construction Market
- Liquid cooling comes to a boil: Tracking data center investment, innovation and infrastructure at the 2025 midpoint
- Digital Twin for Data Centers Market Report
- Transforming future data centers via Physical AI
- Goodman plans 97MW data center in Silicon Valley
Are you an end user*?
Click here to be considered for a complimentary pass. *Hyperscaler, colocation provider (non-sales), investor, private equity, or enterprise tenant.
Why You Should Attend:
As AI infrastructure demand spikes, the West Coast stands at a crossroads—strained grids, environmental pressures, and tight real estate challenge growth. DICE West brings together the community designing, financing, building, and powering the next era of innovation. If you’re scaling data center operations, pursuing sustainable deployment, or mastering edge ecosystems, this conference equips you with the actionable insights, policy intelligence, and network you need to lead in this critical moment.
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Venue
San Jose Marriott
301 South Market St
San Jose, CA 95113
Ballroom/Floor: San Jose Ballroom / 2nd Floor
Parking Information:
Parking recommended at San Jose Convention Center
150 W. San Carlos Street
Entrances on Almaden Blvd. and Market Street
$1 per 15 minutes - $25 to $30 max.
Agenda
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7:30 AM 8:25 AM |
Coffee, Networking and Breakfast!
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8:25 AM 8:30 AM |
Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE West 2025!
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8:30 AM 9:05 AM |
State Of The West Coast Data Center Market: Navigating Growth In 2025 And Beyond
AI is heating up investment on the West Coast even as aging energy infrastructure and regulatory hurdles slow projects in key cities. Growth hopes are meeting tangible limitations. Can markets, utilities, and policymakers align fast enough to support sustained expansion?
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9:05 AM 9:50 AM |
Financing the Future: Adapting Capital Strategies for Surging Demand
As infrastructure demand surges, financing models are evolving—bringing in ESG-backed capital, modular funding, and phased deployment to mitigate risks. But rising costs, variable demand, and supply chain disruption elevate financial uncertainty. Can capital strategies adapt quickly enough to fuel growth without overexposing stakeholders?
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9:50 AM 10:05 AM |
Top Ten Business And Legal Issues In Data Center Leasing, Assemblages, And Development
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10:05 AM 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break
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10:30 AM 11:15 AM |
Redefining Reach: Innovating Site Selection for the Edge Era
As data needs move to the edge, traditional data center site selection is changing. Today’s challenge is balancing power, connectivity, and community demands. Some teams win with renewable energy; others struggle with long permitting. The definition of a prime location is shifting and the edge is merging with the core. How can the industry adapt its site strategies to deliver speed, reliability, and proximity without losing performance or scale?
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11:15 AM 11:55 AM |
Advancing Cooling: Meeting High-Density Demands
With AI workloads driving rack densities beyond what legacy cooling systems can support, liquid, immersion, and hybrid cooling methods are gaining traction. These systems offer energy savings and density support—but introduce new complexity and cost. Can operators deploy these advanced systems reliably and efficiently at scale?
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11:55 AM 1:00 PM |
Networking Luncheon
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12:25 PM 12:45 PM |
From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
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1:00 PM 1:30 PM |
Keynote - The Unseen Future: Forces Reshaping Data Centers and AI
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1:30 PM 2:15 PM |
From Deal to Delivery: Mitigating Risk Across Planning, Build, and Beyond
Each stage of project delivery brings new risks, from shifting markets and evolving regulations to mounting technical complexity, demanding that all stakeholders adapt strategies for identifying challenges early, collaborating effectively, and mitigating uncertainty. As the industry navigates tighter timelines and greater unpredictability, which approaches are proving most successful for aligning diverse perspectives and consistently delivering projects with confidence and long-term value?
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2:15 PM 2:30 PM |
Coffee Break!
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2:30 PM 3:15 PM |
The Power Factor: Grid, Growth & the Future of Data Center Expansion
Power availability and backup solutions now stand as the critical force shaping where, how, and how fast data centers are built. As surging demand meets grid constraints and evolving utility dynamics, access to electricity drives competitive decisions and market development across the industry. What new approaches are leading players taking to secure and accelerate power resources for the next phase of data center growth?
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3:15 PM 3:45 PM |
The San Jose–PG&E Keynote Conversation
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3:45 PM 4:30 PM |
Smart Construction: Design Innovation, Efficient Development and Scalable Builds
Modular engineering, prefabrication, and digital twins are redefining how data centers go from concept to reality—offering faster timelines, tighter quality control, and adaptability. Yet integrating these innovations into standard delivery models isn’t straightforward. Can the industry fully leverage modular strategies while maintaining precision, scale, and reliability?
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4:30 PM 5:30 PM |
Post-Event Cocktail Reception & Networking!
Join us onsite for our west coast finale at the DICE West 2025 Post-Event Cocktail Party co-sponsored by Cox, Castle & Nicholson and Northeast-Western Energy Systems USA!!
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