United States Data Center Market

Bisnow's Data Center Connectivity & AI Infrastructure Conference & Expo, held 20 October 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Dulles in Herndon, Virginia. The programme sits at the intersection of network infrastructure and AI compute: what the cloud build cycle left behind, how interconnection economics are being repriced, and how investors are underwriting connectivity assets on a moving technology curv...

The AFCOM North Carolina Chapter Meeting is a half-day gathering scheduled for October 21, 2026, at Topgolf University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Organized by the North Carolina chapter of AFCOM, the event brings together regional data center managers, facilities engineers, IT operations leaders, and infrastructure builders. The program features a keynote presentation on AI infrastructure gr...

Bisnow's West Coast Data Center Operations & Cooling Conference is a single-day event taking place October 21, 2026, at the DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose in San Jose, California. Part of the DICE (Data Center Investment Conference & Expo) series, the half-day program runs from 8:00 AM PDT through midday and focuses on AI-density cooling deployments, workforce development, and the commissioning-...

The Marcellus Power Conference is an executive conference held October 21–22, 2026, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Produced by The Power Connection, the inaugural gathering brings together energy producers, utilities, and equipment manufacturers alongside data center operators, hyperscalers, and infrastructure investors. The forum examines regional power...

7x24 Exchange Fall 2026 Conference is the mission-critical industry's semi-annual flagship event, held October 25 to 28 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country. Organized by 7x24 Exchange International, the non-profit association serving data center and mission-critical operations professionals. The 2026 fall theme is "The Intersection of AI & Traditional Data Centers," framing how existing...

PowerUp Data Centers - Investment is a three-day executive conference organized by Infocast, a Clarion Events company, bringing together capital providers and infrastructure developers to examine deal structures and project finance across data center and power generation facilities. Held October 27–29, 2026, at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia, the event convenes 95 expert sp...

The Data Center Energy Industry Update is a one-day executive conference held November 2, 2026, at The Houstonian in Houston, Texas. Produced by The Power Connection in partnership with the iMasons Texas Local Chapter, the event brings together energy producers, equipment manufacturers, and infrastructure providers alongside data center developers, builders, and tenants working to deploy AI com...

DCD>Connect | Virginia is DCD's annual event for the world's largest data center market, held at Lansdowne Resort & Spa in Loudoun County. The 2026 edition runs November 3-4, 2026 and convenes 1,800-2,500+ senior professionals, 200+ exhibitors, and 150-250+ speakers working on Virginia's data center buildout. A closed-door DCD>Leadership Summit for C-suite executives is co-located on November 4...

Southeast Power NEXT is a three-day executive conference organized by Infocast, convening state regulators, electric utilities, data center energy negotiators, and renewable energy developers across the southeastern United States. Taking place November 4–6, 2026, at the Sheraton & Le Méridien Charlotte Hotel Complex in Charlotte, North Carolina, the gathering brings together approximately 500 e...

Tennessee Data Center Conference & Expo is an executive gathering organized by Bisnow as part of its DICE series, taking place November 10, 2026, at the Omni Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference examines the regulatory, utility, and capital dynamics driving digital infrastructure across the state, with specific focus on divergence between the Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville...

Bisnow's Carolinas Data Center Conference & Expo is a single-day event on November 12, 2026, at the Charlotte Marriott City Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Part of Bisnow's DICE (Data Centers Investment Conference & Expo) series, the conference brings together developers, investors, operators, utility executives, and construction leaders active in the North and South Carolina data center m...

SC26 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held November 15 to 20, 2026 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The 2026 edition carries the theme "HPC Unites." Co-sponsored by ACM/SIGHPC and IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on High Performance Computing (TCHPC), with IEEE Computer Society celebrating its 80th anniversary at this ed...

RE+ 2026 is the 21st edition of North America's largest clean energy event, held November 16 to 19, 2026 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Organized by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) through RE+ Events, the show draws 40,000+ attendees and 1,300+ exhibitors across solar, energy storage, hydrogen, EV infrastructure, grid edge technol...

Advancing Data Center Design & Engineering East is a three-day technical conference dedicated to data center design and engineering across the eastern United States. Organised by Advancing Construction, a division of Hanson Wade Group, the gathering convenes more than 100 design directors, electrical engineers, mechanical leads, architects, and hyperscale infrastructure teams. The event takes p...

Advancing Data Center Retrofits is a three-day conference convening facility owners, operators, design engineers, and contractors modernizing operational data centers to support high-density and AI workloads. Organised by Advancing Construction, a Hanson Wade Group division, the gathering takes place December 1-3, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The event brings together over 80 retrofit sp...

Advancing Data Center Construction East is a three-day conference convening data center operators, developers, general contractors, and engineering specialists delivering mission-critical projects across the eastern United States. Organised by Advancing Construction (part of the Hanson Wade Group), the event takes place December 1-3, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. The gathering expects mor...

Bisnow's West Coast Data Center Conference & Expo takes place December 3, 2026, at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California. Hosted as part of Bisnow's DICE series, the single-day program runs from 7:30 AM through late afternoon, bringing together developers, hyperscale operators, utility leads, and institutional investors to address land acquisition, power procurement, community engagemen...

Advancing Edge Data Centers is a three-day conference addressing low-latency and distributed compute infrastructure for artificial intelligence inference and regional edge applications. Organised by Advancing Construction, a Hanson Wade Group division, the gathering takes place December 7-9, 2026, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Jose in San Jose, California. The event brings together over...

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...

The AI Summit New York 2026 runs December 9-10 at the Javits Center. Informa runs it as the US edition of The AI Summit series, alongside London and Australia. The organizer projects more than 5,000 senior decision-makers, 350-plus speakers across 10 content stages, and 100-plus solution providers in the expo. Programming is built around commercial deployment rather than research: enterprise le...

PTC’27 is the 49th annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, scheduled for January 17–20, 2027, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii. The four-day gathering serves as a primary commercial and strategic hub for digital infrastructure across the Pacific Rim and global markets, bringing together executives from data center operators, subsea cab...

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...

RE+ Northeast 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 February 2 to 4, 2027, at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference gathers over 3,500 industry professionals and more t...

Digital Infrastructure World (DIW) is a new AI-infrastructure conference produced by CloserStill Media's Data Centre World network in collaboration with the Open Compute Project (OCP), held February 3–4, 2027 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. DIW unites the full AI-infrastructure stack, from silicon and systems to networking, power, cooling, data centers, software, and ...

Metro Connect USA is the Capacity Global portfolio's flagship US digital infrastructure dealmaking event. The 2027 edition runs 8–10 February 2027 at the Signia by Hilton Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida — a venue change from the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort used in 2026. Organisers project 5,000+ digital infrastructure leaders, 75% at director level or above, includi...

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...

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...

NVIDIA GTC 2027 is NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference, held March 14–18, 2027 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center and venues throughout downtown San Jose, California. GTC is NVIDIA's developer conference for AI and accelerated computing, drawing developers, researchers, IT decision-makers, and business leaders. It runs as a hybrid event with in-person and virtual attendance. Recent...

Advancing Data Center Construction West is a three-day conference convening data center operators, hyperscale infrastructure teams, general contractors, engineering specialists, and utility providers delivering mission-critical projects across the western United States. Organised by Advancing Construction, a division of Hanson Wade Group, the gathering convenes more than 900 decision-makers and...

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...

Data Center Americas 2027 is the inaugural US edition of CloserStill Media's Data Centre World series, which already runs in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid, and Singapore. The two-day conference and expo runs March 31 to April 1, 2027 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The organizer projects 3,000+ attendees and 150 exhibiting solution providers, and is positioni...

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...

Advancing Data Center Construction Mid-Atlantic is an executive gathering organized by Advancing Construction, a division of Hanson Wade Group, focused on digital infrastructure delivery across Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern hubs. Scheduled for April 26 to 28, 2027, the conference brings together more than 100 industry leaders, including hyperscale owners, wholesale colocation operators, general...

The 2027 edition of Bisnow's National Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE: National), the flagship of the DICE series, running three days from 4 to 6 May 2027. The 2026 edition drew the hyperscaler, colocation, developer and capital markets community to the Washington, DC market; the 2027 programme is expected to follow the same multi-day format. Programming Focus Power strategy and ...

The fourth annual Data Center Frontier Trends Summit takes place May 5 to 7, 2027, at the Renaissance Phoenix Glendale Hotel & Spa in Glendale, Arizona. Organized by Data Center Frontier (Endeavor Business Media), the three-day gathering shifts westward to metropolitan Phoenix after three editions in Northern Virginia. The 2026 conference in Reston drew more than 500 data center operators, deve...

International Telecoms Week (ITW) is the annual global meeting point for the wholesale telecoms and digital infrastructure community. The 2027 edition marks ITW's 20th year and runs 10–13 May 2027 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland. Organisers project 6,500 decision-makers, with 55% in C-suite, SVP, VP, or director roles, plus 120+ exhibitors and 400+ ...

RE+ Southeast 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 May 11 to 12, 2027, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The gathering brings together more than 1,000 clean energy and power professionals alongside ...

The US Power & Data Center Development Forum returns to New York on May 12-13, 2027, organized by New Project Media. Held at Conrad New York Downtown in Lower Manhattan, the two-day gathering convenes more than 300 senior leaders across the power, renewables, and digital infrastructure sectors, with developers and independent power producers making up half of the audience. Programming Focus Lar...

DCD>Connect | New York is Data Centre Dynamics' flagship North American conference, returning to the New York Marriott Marquis in Midtown Manhattan on May 17–18, 2027. The event is expected to draw more than 5,000 senior decision-makers from hyperscalers, enterprise operators, colocation providers, investors, and technology partners. Three events share the venue: DCD>Connect | New York, the DCD...

The DCD Investment Forum | New York 2027 takes place on May 17–18, 2027, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Organized by Data Centre Dynamics under the InfraXmedia platform, the two-day executive gathering convenes institutional investors, private equity funds, lenders, and digital infrastructure operators to evaluate capital allocation, deal structuring, and portfolio risk acros...

CLEANPOWER 2027 is the annual conference and exhibition organized by the American Clean Power Association (ACP), scheduled for May 24 to 27, 2027, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The event convenes professionals across wind, solar, energy storage, transmission, and clean energy finance, with clean energy accounting for more than 90 percent of new capacity added to the A...

Data Center World 2027 is AFCOM's annual national conference and expo for data center and IT infrastructure professionals. The event runs May 24–27, 2027, at Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Based on the 2026 edition's numbers, the conference draws 200+ speakers, 120+ sessions, and 450+ exhibiting vendors over four days. The 2027 edition marks a venue change from prior years in Washin...

The 7x24 Exchange Spring Conference 2027 is a national gathering for mission-critical infrastructure professionals, held June 6–9, 2027, at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. Organized by 7x24 Exchange International, the semi-annual conference centers on the systems supporting continuous digital infrastructure. The 2027 spring conference theme is "Powering the AI Surge." ...

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...

Infocast's Transmission & Interconnection Summit is an annual industry conference addressing the business, regulatory, and technical environment of electric transmission asset investment and grid interconnection. The 2027 edition takes place June 22–24, 2027, in Virginia. The conference focuses on transmission planning, cost allocation frameworks, and interconnection queue management required t...

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...

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...

Yotta 2027 is an annual three-day digital infrastructure conference taking place September 20 to 22, 2027, at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Organized by Data Centre Dynamics, the summit sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, energy generation, and critical infrastructure. The 2027 edition relocates to The Venetian to support anticipated growth, projecting more than 8,0...

The 7x24 Exchange Fall 2027 Conference is a national conference for mission-critical infrastructure professionals, taking place October 3–6, 2027, at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Organized semi-annually by 7x24 Exchange International, the gathering brings together operators, designers, engineers, and vendors responsible for continuous digital infrastruc...

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...

The OCP Global Summit is the Open Compute Project's flagship annual gathering, held October 11–14, 2027 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The summit convenes the open hardware and open infrastructure community (hyperscalers, cloud providers, OEMs and ODMs, silicon vendors, and data center operators) around OCP reference designs for rack, power, cooling, networki...

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 ...

Data Center World 2028 is AFCOM and Informa's flagship global conference and exhibition for the data center industry, taking place May 1 to May 4, 2028, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The event marks the conference's return to the nation's capital following its 2027 stop in Nashville, placing the gathering directly adjacent to the Northern Virginia data center ...

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...

The 7x24 Exchange Spring Conference 2029 is a national gathering for mission-critical infrastructure professionals, held June 3 to 6, 2029, at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. Organized by 7x24 Exchange International, the semi-annual conference convenes operators, designers, engineers, and vendors responsible for continuous digital infrastructure systems. The conference...

The 7x24 Exchange Fall 2029 Conference is a national conference for mission-critical infrastructure professionals, taking place October 14 to 17, 2029, at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Organized by 7x24 Exchange International, the semi-annual gathering convenes operators, designers, engineers, and vendors responsible for continuous digital infrastructure...