Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Pacific Northwest
Tue Apr 14, 2026
Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Pacific Northwest
INVESTIGATING HOW POWER MARKETS, AI INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY EXPECTATIONS AND LAND CONSTRAINTS ARE RESHAPING DATA CENTER GROWTH.
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Speakers and Panels
Urban Edge, Suburban Rings, Rural Plays: Choosing the Right Setting for Growth
Operating at High Density: Reliability, Efficiency and Uptime at Scale
Building Resilience Into Every Decision: A New Look at Data Center Risk
Designing for Tomorrow: Modular, Flexible Architectures in Hyperscale Data Centers
On-Site Generation, Storage and Microgrids: New Models for Assured Megawatts
James Richards
Adam Michaelis
Speed Meets Precision: How Modular Delivery and Construction Tech Are Redefining Data Center Execution
Why You Can't Miss this Data Center Conference
What You'll Learn:
- How Pacific Northwest data center growth, investment patterns, and public/private collaboration are reshaping one of North America’s most closely watched digital infrastructure regions.
- What project planning and site selection approaches are winning across urban edge, suburban rings, and rural corridors—from power and land evaluation to managing community expectations and benefits.
- The most effective resilience strategies for risks ranging from grid constraints and climate pressures to permitting delays and policy uncertainty.
- How modular builds, rapid deployment models, and construction technology are transforming campus delivery timelines and capacity in an AI-driven market.
- How deal and capital structures are evolving amid higher power costs, tight vacancy, and surging demand, including new routes to financing and value creation.
- What practical AI, automation, and data intelligence tools are moving from pilot to scaled use in operations, and how they’re changing expectations for reliability and efficiency at high density.
- How leading operators are balancing advanced technology, streamlined processes, and workforce strategy to run resilient, high-performing facilities under rising energy and ESG scrutiny.
- Which innovations in integrated design, engineering methods, digital modeling, and industrialized construction are setting new benchmarks for speed, sustainability, and project outcomes?
How You’ll Do More Business From Attending This Conference:
- Gain actionable strategies to move faster—from smarter site selection across urban, suburban and rural settings to resilient build, commissioning and handover processes tuned to regional constraints.
- Understand how to futureproof your approach to risk, power, and capital, capturing new financing opportunities while positioning projects to withstand policy and grid uncertainty.
- See which technologies and operating models are truly moving the needle in the Pacific Northwest—from microgrids and high-density cooling to construction tech and AI-assisted operations—and how to deploy them for real ROI.
- Build relationships that plug you into deal flow, development pipelines and best practices, connecting you with the operators, utilities, investors and partners driving the region’s next wave of growth.
- Leave with market-specific insights, contacts and next steps to advance your role in the Pacific Northwest’s fast-evolving digital infrastructure ecosystem.
Who You’ll Network With:
Connect with industry leaders defining the future of the Southwest’s data center landscape:
- Developers, Owners & Operators — visionaries, engineers, and planners delivering new capacity from Central Washington to greater Seattle and beyond.
- Construction & Design Professionals — architects, GCs, modular specialists, and engineering teams pushing the envelope on delivery speed, density and standardization.
- Utility & Infrastructure Partners — grid strategists, energy providers and transmission planners grappling with fast-rising tech loads and resource adequacy.
- Investors & Financial Partners — infrastructure lenders, private capital leaders and sustainability-focused investors backing large-scale PNW capacity expansions.
- Technology & Solution Providers — innovators in high-density cooling, power and automation enabling AI-scale deployments and more efficient operations.
- Policy & Regulatory Experts — influential voices shaping permitting, climate policy and community frameworks for data centers in Washington and Oregon.
Relevant News and Developments:
- Data Center Industry – Energy Subgroup Preliminary Findings
- Council releases initial 20-year forecast for Pacific Northwest load
- North America Data Center Trends H1 2025
- Global Data Center Trends 2025cbre
- Northwest Data Centers: A Climate Test and Potential Opportunity
- Data Centers in the Northwest USA
- Behind Every AI Breakthrough: The CDU Technology Enabling High-Density Cooling
- Key Data Center Construction Trends in 2025
- Data Center Construction Trends: Build Fast, Build Smart
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:
DICE Pacific Northwest is the essential summit for anyone invested in the region’s next chapter of digital infrastructure—from AI-driven power demand and capital deployment to siting, resilience and operations. With an agenda built around real-time challenges and opportunities—grid constraints, climate expectations, rapid delivery and evolving financial models—this event will surface the strategies, partnerships and ideas needed to navigate one of the most dynamic data center markets in the U.S. Whether you’re breaking ground, scaling a campus, entering the market or optimizing existing assets, you’ll benchmark your approach, meet influential peers, and position your organization to capture opportunity in one of digital infrastructure’s most scrutinized and opportunity-rich regions.
For questions or interests in becoming a speaker or sponsor, please email our global director, data centers, Adam Knobloch, at adam.knobloch@bisnow.com
To request disability-related accommodations, please contact ally.araco@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
Looking for a national perspective on where the data center market is heading?
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What’s new and elevated this year:
• A Lifetime Achievement Award honoring Joseph Kava, followed by a keynote session
• Golf at Blue Mash Golf Course to close out three days
• Three days of programming on hyperscalers, AI, power, cooling, development and capital
• 100+ speakers, 3+ keynotes and 12+ hours of networking
• The return of Bisnow’s DICE Casino Night
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Venue
Seattle Marriott Waterfront
2100 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98121
Ballroom/Floor: Grand Pacific Ballroom / Floor B1
Looking to save on your stay?
Save on your stay near the event venue! Enjoy convenience, comfort, and special rates—book now while availability lasts HERE.
Agenda
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7:30 AM 8:20 AM |
Coffee, Networking & Breakfast
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8:20 AM 8:30 AM |
Opening Remarks: Welcome to DICE Pacific Northwest 2026!
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8:30 AM 9:10 AM |
State of the Pacific Northwest: Opportunities, Challenges and What’s Next
Data center development in the Pacific Northwest is at an inflection point, with AI-fueled demand, grid constraints, and policy scrutiny reshaping how and where new capacity comes online. Developers, operators and investors are weighing the region’s power advantages and cool climate against emerging community concerns, environmental expectations and transmission bottlenecks, forcing new playbooks on siting, engagement and long-term planning. As national and global capital chases scalable AI infrastructure, the Northwest must decide whether it will lean into growth, set firmer guardrails, or both—so what does the next chapter of this market really look like?
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9:10 AM 9:50 AM |
Urban Edge, Suburban Rings, Rural Plays: Choosing the Right Setting for Growth
As AI and cloud workloads scale, the calculus for where to build has shifted from “closest to downtown” to a much more nuanced mix of urban-edge, suburban and rural locations tied to power, fiber and politics. Developers are increasingly chasing exurban and rural sites with better grid access or land availability while still relying on urban and suburban hubs for network convergence, talent and customer proximity. With utilities, communities and regulators reacting differently across these geographies, how should stakeholders balance latency, cost, risk and long-term optionality when choosing where the next campus goes?
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9:50 AM 10:20 AM |
Networking Break
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10:20 AM 11:00 AM |
Building Resilience Into Every Decision: A New Look at Data Center Risk
Rapid expansion, higher densities and growing dependence on digital infrastructure are forcing stakeholders to revisit how they define and manage risk across the data center lifecycle. Owners, operators and capital providers are weaving resilience into site selection, design, contracting and energy strategy, exploring diversification, microgrids and more flexible financial structures as core tools rather than edge cases. At the same time, shifting load forecasts, climate impacts and regulatory expectations are making yesterday’s assumptions increasingly unreliable. What does a truly resilient strategy look like in an environment where both physical and market conditions are changing faster than ever?
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11:00 AM 11:40 AM |
On-Site Generation, Storage and Microgrids: New Models for Assured Megawatts
As interconnection queues lengthen and peak-load forecasts rise, on-site generation, storage and microgrids are moving from experimental concepts to serious options for securing firm power. Energy providers, developers and technology partners are piloting gas-fired microgrids, battery systems and hybrid architectures that promise faster deployment, higher reliability and potential alignment with evolving sustainability frameworks. Yet questions remain around cost, regulation, community perception and long-term flexibility as these models scale. Which configurations are most likely to become standard for AI-era campuses, and how should stakeholders evaluate when on-site solutions make sense, and when they do not?
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11:40 AM 12:55 PM |
Lunch & Networking Break
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12:15 PM 12:35 PM |
From Blueprint to Build: Best Practices for Physical Security Throughout Development
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12:55 PM 1:40 PM |
Designing for Tomorrow: Modular, Flexible Architectures in Hyperscale Data Centers
AI and GPU-driven demand is exposing the limits of traditional, monolithic data center designs, pushing builders toward modular, flexible architectures that can scale and adapt without major facility overhauls. Operators and developers across colo, enterprise and cloud environments are testing prefabricated halls, standardized blocks and hybrid designs that integrate factory-built power and cooling with AI-ready white space to keep timelines tight while preserving optionality. At the same time, grid constraints, sustainability expectations and competitive pressure are raising the cost of getting those design bets wrong. How should stakeholders rethink architecture so today’s modular choices leave room for tomorrow’s chips, cooling and workloads?
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1:40 PM 2:05 PM |
Networking Break
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2:05 PM 2:45 PM |
Operating at High Density: Reliability, Efficiency and Uptime at Scale
AI workloads are pushing rack densities far beyond legacy norms, forcing operators to rethink everything from cooling strategies and power distribution to monitoring and maintenance philosophy. Operators are deploying liquid and hybrid cooling, more advanced controls and AI-assisted operations to maintain uptime, manage energy use and protect hardware as thermal and electrical loads spike. As densities continue to climb and business tolerance for downtime falls, what operational models will keep facilities both efficient and resilient at scale?
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2:45 PM 3:15 PM |
Speed Meets Precision: How Modular Delivery and Construction Tech Are Redefining Data Center Execution
Data center construction is being pulled in two directions at once: intense pressure to deliver capacity faster, and rapid adoption of digital tools that change how projects are designed and built. Teams are combining modular building blocks, prefabrication, parallel permitting and industrialized methods with BIM, digital twins, and real-time project controls to cut rework, tighten coordination, and hit aggressive AI-era go-live dates. Can these speed-focused playbooks and construction technologies truly deliver the next step-change in predictability, quality, and pace, or will long-lead procurement, labor constraints, and legacy habits keep holding projects back?
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3:15 PM 4:15 PM |
Post-Event Cocktail Party
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