Metro Connect USA has long been where capital meets digital infrastructure.

Now, for the first time, we're launching a dedicated Data Center Investment Summit within the brand new Finance and Investment Stage.

This is your opportunity to join the investors, developers, lenders and advisors shaping the next cycle of data center growth. Explore where the most attractive opportunities are emerging, how funding models are evolving and what investors are really looking for as AI drives a new wave of infrastructure demand.

The Summit concludes with a Happy Hour, giving you the chance to continue your conversation and connect with the decision-makers allocating capital across the sector.

Data Center and Investor leaders on stage at Metro Connect USA
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  1. Data Center Investment Summit

    Investment and Finance Stage
    45 mins
    AI-era financing demand both larger and more complex capital commitments, forcing greater use of private credit, construction financing, hybrid debt structures and securitization strategies. Even more complex, is the requirement to fund projects when the future is still so unclear - future AI workload demands, the continued shift to inference and the leaps and bounds by which AI models are improving, are all making the financial forecasts foggy. How do you finance infrastructure for the AI-driven digital infrastructure landscape? Join us for this panel as wel explore: How can stakeholders across the capital stack assemble a capital structure large enough to finance future projects? Are data centers creating entirely new capital products? How should investment for inference projects differ from projects which have largely been training-focused until very recently?
14:45
  1. Investment and Finance Stage
    45 mins
    The traditional model of data center financing was focused on fixed tenants and long leases. Customer was credit. Now, the AI-first organizations - neoscalers and neoclouds - are adding a whole new layer of complexity in the eyes of investors, as they represent a whole new underwriting proposition. Investors require the confidence that customer demand is durale and ripe for growth. Join us for this panel as we explore: How can investors understand the credit quality spectrum of customers? What happens if GPU economics change?  What customers should operators really be chasing in order to satisfy investment stakeholders - the fastest growing customers or the safest customers?
15:30
  1. Investment and Finance Stage
    30 mins
16:00
  1. Investment and Finance Stage
    45 mins
    The traditional model of data center financing was focused on fixed tenants and long leases. Customer was credit. Now, the AI-first organizations - neoscalers and neoclouds - are adding a whole new layer of complexity in the eyes of investors, as they represent a whole new underwriting proposition. Investors require the confidence that customer demand is durable and ripe for growth. Join us for this panel as we explore: How can investors understand the credit quality spectrum of customers? ' What happens if GPU economics change? What customers should operators really be chasing in order to satisfy investment stakeholders - the fastest growing customers or the safest customers?
16:45
  1. Investment and Finance Stage
    45 mins
    The scale of capital required for AI infrastructure is now increasing so quickly that instituional investors are becoming active participants in the market, desiring all the visibility into transactions and exposue to specific assets that comes with such status. The shift to co-investment capital is real as digital infrastructure assets are no longer a niche allocation. Join us for this panel as we explore: How will these new fund structures work in practice? Who are now the lead investors in digital infrastructure deals? What is the future role of fund managers in a world of direct investor exposure?
17:30
  1. Core Networks Stage
    45 mins