Is Your Land Desirable For Hyperscale Data Center?
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, well-located parcels capable of supporting […]
AI Data Centers Building Their Own Power Behind the Grid
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 center generating its own electricity […]
Supply Chain Backups Across Permitting Power and Labor
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 right now shares one common […]
Hydrogen Powered GPU CPU Racks
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 for close to fifty years, […]
Data Centers in Space: Is It Practical?
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 science fiction serial: server racks […]
The Power Crisis Behind the AI Boom
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 enough of them, and how […]
Data Center Trends Second Half 2026 Through 2028
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 center development were defined by […]
Solid State Transformers and the Race for Speed to Power
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 is holding up their next […]
Why Data Centers Are Turning to Virtual Power Plants
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 this year with demand-response provider […]
The Silicon Heart of the AI Grid: Solid-State Transformers Race to Power Data Centers
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 the least glamorous pieces of […]