South Central US Data Center Market

Energy LIVE 2026 is Reuters Events' annual US energy leadership summit, held December 8-9, 2026 at the Marriott Marquis Houston. It brings together utilities, power producers, grid operators, oil, gas and LNG companies, nuclear developers, data center operators, and investors. Reuters Events expects 1,500+ senior attendees and 75+ exhibitors, with projects worth a combined $755 billion represen...

Projects & Money 2027 is a three-day energy project finance conference organized by Infocast, taking place January 19 to 21, 2027, at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. Serving as the annual kickoff for the U.S. energy project finance community since 2009, the 19th annual gathering convenes more than 1,000 attendees, over 125 expert speakers, and 30 content sessions. Parti...

Advancing Nuclear Power Construction is a three-day technical and executive conference organized by Advancing Construction, a division of Hanson Wade Group. Taking place January 19–21, 2027, at the Hyatt Regency Dallas in Dallas, Texas, the summit gathers more than 60 project owners, EPC contractors, specialty trades, reactor developers, and engineering firms focused on project delivery across ...

ERCOT Power NEXT is a three-day executive power and energy conference organized by Infocast, taking place January 25–27, 2027, at the Hilton Austin in Austin, Texas. Expanding on Infocast's long-running ERCOT Market Summit, the event convenes more than 800 participants and over 115 speakers across 29 sessions. Attendees include wholesale power generators, electric utilities, ERCOT officials, st...

The 13th Annual MISO/SPP Regional Conference is the Gulf Coast Power Association's yearly meeting on the MISO and SPP power markets. It runs February 18 to 19, 2027, at the Sheraton New Orleans. GCPA moved the dates to avoid a conflict with SPP's Energy Synergy Summit. Registration opens in early December 2026. No agenda or speakers are published yet. The 2026 edition, held at the same hotel, e...

The Energy HPC & AI Conference is the annual meeting hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University, held February 23–25, 2027 at the BioScience Research Collaborative in Houston, Texas. The 2027 edition marks the conference's 20th year. It is the energy industry's central forum for high-performance computing, computational science and engineering, machine learning, and data science, dr...

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) holds its first Data Center and AI Integration Conference from March 3 to 5, 2027, at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre by the Galleria in Dallas, Texas. The conference covers how to design, operate, and optimize data center facilities for AI workloads, with a focus on power density, cooling efficiency, and su...

CERAWeek 2027 is S&P Global's annual energy conference, chaired by S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin. S&P Global runs it through its S&P Global Energy division, formerly S&P Global Commodity Insights. It runs March 8-12, 2027, in Houston at the Hilton Americas-Houston and the George R. Brown Convention Center. CERAWeek 2026 drew more than 2,470 companies, 2,200 C-suite leaders and 588 gove...

RE+ Texas is an annual regional clean energy conference and exhibition organized by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) through RE+ Events. The 2027 edition convenes March 24 to 25, 2027, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Co-located with RE+ Microgrids, the event brings together more than 1,500 clean energy profes...

The ACP Siting + Permitting Conference is an annual national forum organized by the American Clean Power Association (ACP), scheduled for April 13–15, 2027, at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference convenes project developers, regulatory officials, utility planners, environmental consultants, and corporate energy buyers to address project siting, land use, envi...

The Gulf Coast Power Association's Spring 2027 Conference runs April 19 to 21, 2027, at Hilton Americas-Houston. The spring meeting covers ERCOT and Gulf Coast power markets. Registration opens in early 2027. No agenda, speakers, or sponsors are published yet. The 2026 spring conference expected 600+ attendees, citing 650 attendees in 2025. Programming Focus The 2026 edition covered these topic...

Energy Storage Summit USA 2027 is the ninth annual executive conference organized by Solar Media (Informa Markets), taking place April 20–21, 2027, at the Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel in the Dallas metro area. The two-day gathering convenes more than 400 senior decision-makers across the energy storage, electric utility, power generation, and digital infrastructure sectors, foc...

The Permian Power Conference is a two-day executive gathering held June 7–8, 2027, at the Horseshoe Arena in Midland, Texas. Produced by The Power Connection, the conference connects power generators, electric utilities, and oil and gas producers with data center developers, artificial intelligence infrastructure operators, and infrastructure financiers. The forum addresses regional power infra...

Datacloud USA x Metro Connect Fall is an executive digital infrastructure conference co-located with Metro Connect Fall, uniting the data center, cloud, and fiber sectors. Organized by Datacloud, the 2027 edition takes place from August 31 through September 2, 2027, at the Fairmont Austin in Austin, Texas, with pre-conference activities opening on August 30. The gathering convenes approximately...

ACP RECHARGE is the annual energy storage conference of the American Clean Power Association (ACP). The 2027 edition takes place September 13 to 15, 2027, at the Austin Marriott Downtown in Austin, Texas. Registration for 2027 has not opened yet. The 2026 edition, held in Aurora, Colorado, drew 600 attendees, more than 75 speakers, and 15 exhibitors. Programming Focus The 2027 program has not b...

Gastech 2027 is an exhibition and conference covering natural gas, LNG, low-carbon solutions, electrification and AI for energy. The organizer is dmg events. It runs September 14-17, 2027, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. The event site cites 60,000 attendees from 150 countries, 800 exhibiting companies, 800 speakers and 200 sessions across 15 programs. Gastech 2026...

The Gulf Coast Power Association's Fall 2027 Conference runs October 4 to 6, 2027, at the AT&T Hotel & Conference Center in Austin, Texas. It is GCPA's largest yearly meeting on ERCOT and Gulf Coast power markets. Registration opens in summer 2027. No agenda, speakers, or sponsors are published yet. The 2025 fall conference drew 875 attendees, and the 2026 edition projected 850+. Programming Fo...

Data Center World Power returns to the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, from October 25 to 27, 2027. Organised by AFCOM and Informa Connect as part of the broader Data Center World event portfolio, the three-day gathering is dedicated exclusively to the power, energy procurement, and electrical infrastructure challenges facing the data center industry. The event uni...

The Gulf Coast Power Association has scheduled its Spring 2028 Conference for April 17 to 19, 2028, in Houston, Texas. GCPA has not announced a venue, agenda, or registration date. Its 2026 and 2027 spring conferences use Hilton Americas-Houston. The spring meeting covers ERCOT and Gulf Coast power markets. The 2025 spring conference drew 650 attendees. Who Should Attend Data center developers ...

The Gulf Coast Power Association has scheduled its Fall 2028 Conference for October 2 to 4, 2028, in Austin, Texas. GCPA has not announced a venue, agenda, or registration date. Its 2025, 2026, and 2027 fall conferences use the AT&T Hotel & Conference Center. The fall meeting is GCPA's largest, with 875 attendees in 2025. Who Should Attend Data center developers and operators active in Texas Ut...