Panel: Build vs Buy - Where Is the Best Risk-Adjusted Return in Data Centers?

09 Feb 2027
Investment and Finance Stage
Data Center Investment Summit

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?