Symposium Context
“Multi-Dimensional Project Execution”
AI & data centers are on the critical path to enabling the United States to win the AI race. Leadership in AI capabilities is now a matter of national security, and AI data-center infrastructure has emerged as the primary limiting factor.
Scaling this infrastructure demands multi-dimensional, end-to-end execution. Beyond speed and capital, success requires synchronizing a complex set of interdependencies—power availability and grid interconnection, water access and cooling strategies, permitting and zoning, supply-chain constraints, workforce availability, community relations, sustainability requirements, and capital discipline. Failure in any one dimension can delay commissioning, strand capital, or derail entire projects.
As AI workloads intensify, long-held assumptions around power density, cooling, site selection, permitting timelines, and project sequencing are being tested in real time. Utilities, developers, hyperscalers, communities, and regulators are often operating with misaligned imperatives, timelines and incentives—creating friction, delay, and execution risk. These are precisely the issues this symposium is designed to surface and debate.
How should hyperscalers, developers, and infrastructure builders navigate this landscape to ensure coordinated execution across the full lifecycle? Which strategies, partnerships, and technologies best enable on-time commissioning while balancing reliability, sustainability, and community acceptance?
The Houston Strategy Forum is convening leaders from across the data-center infrastructure ecosystem—including government officials, investors, hyperscalers, construction firms, energy providers, equipment manufacturers, and supply-chain partners—for a candid, in-depth discussion on how to manage complexity, mitigate risk, and achieve multi-dimensional, end-to-end execution at scale.
Why Attend?
Engage with senior leaders in a thought-provoking, high-intensity discussion. We will tackle the hard issues directly — bringing challenges, risks, and trade-offs onto the table.
Come share perspectives, compare notes, and learn from peers shaping the future of AI infrastructure.
At the Houston Strategy Forum, we have real discussions — no fluff.
We are looking forward to a powerful discussion with:
Keynote Conversation
• Honorable Mr. Lucian Niemeyer, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, United States; CEO, Building Cyber Security
Panel Discussion
• Mr. Brian Groody, Vice President New Energy, Baker Hughes
• Mr. Danny Rehg, Vice President Operations, ignis H2 Energy
• Mr. Travis Simmering, President, PROPWR
• Mr. Lance Medlin, CEO, Red Post Energy
Register now.