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By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC | July 21, 2026 Across the country, artificial intelligence and cloud computing are driving the largest wave of industrial land demand in a generation. Hyperscale operators and their developers are searching for a narrow category of property: large,

Cutting the Cord: Why AI Data Centers Are Building Their Own Power Plants Faced with years-long interconnection queues, developers are increasingly choosing to generate their own electricity rather than wait for the grid. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC A year ago, a data

Gridlock on Every Front: The Supply Chain Backups Slowing the Data Center Boom Permitting, power equipment, and skilled labor are all backlogged at once, and no single fix resolves all three. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC Every major bottleneck constraining data center development

Hydrogen’s Second Act: Fueling the GPU Rack Directly Decades of false starts have given way to real, grid-free deployments running AI hardware entirely on hydrogen fuel cells. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC Hydrogen fuel cells have been the perennial almost-technology of clean energy

Data Centers in Orbit: Bold Vision or Expensive Distraction? Nvidia, Google, and SpaceX are all racing toward orbital compute. The physics say it might work eventually. The economics say not yet. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC It sounds like something out of a

Chips are no longer the bottleneck. The grid is — and the numbers behind that shift are staggering. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC For the first two years of the generative AI boom, the industry’s anxiety centered on graphics processors: who could get

The Next 30 Months: What to Watch in Data Centers Through 2028 Tighter capital, constrained power, and a widening gap between announced megawatts and megawatts actually delivered define the road ahead. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC If the last two years of data

Speed to Power: How Solid-State Transformers Could Shortcut the Data Center Bottleneck With conventional high-voltage transformers backlogged for years, developers are asking whether solid-state equipment can get campuses online faster. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC Ask almost any data center developer today what

Not a Power Plant, But Acts Like One: Why Hyperscalers Are Betting on VPPs Google, Tesla, and Sunrun are aggregating home batteries and thermostats into gigawatt-scale capacity, aimed squarely at data center demand. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC When Google signed a deal

A decades-old piece of gray iron is being reinvented in silicon carbide, and the winners could reshape how AI campuses get built. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC For more than a century, the transformer sitting behind a data center has been one of

From Cold Aisles to Cold Plates: Liquid Cooling Becomes the Default for AI Infrastructure As rack densities blow past 30 kilowatts, air conditioning is running out of road, and the industry is settling on a dual-track liquid future. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC

The AI Lab Effect: How OpenAI and Anthropic Are Reshaping Data Center Demand Through 2030 Two companies with no data centers of their own five years ago are now driving some of the largest infrastructure commitments in history. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC

The Case for the Neighbor Nobody Sees: What Data Centers Actually Bring to Their Communities Beyond the noise of local debates, the tax revenue and infrastructure investment data centers generate are reshaping small communities in measurable ways. By Debra Brewster | Partner / CEO, Axiom AI Group USA, LLC Data