Data Centers & National Security Summit
Defense Strategies Institute’s Data Centers & National Security Summit will convene senior leaders, top experts, and strategic decision makers from across the Commercial Sector, Federal Government, DoW, National Labs, and Academia for in-depth discussions on powering and securing critical data center infrastructure in support of national security. This forum aims to explore the technologies and strategies that ensure data centers operate efficiently and securely, with a focus on power management, cooling systems, and operational resilience.
ABOUT THE Data Centers & National Security Summit
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
- Data, energy, & AI: building the infrastructure for scientific leadership & national security
- Powering AI dominance: mobilizing federal resources to accelerate U.S. data center infrastructure
- Delivering technology superiority: data centers as mission-critical infrastructure for the DoW
- Stargate project insights: developing the physical & digital infrastructure to power next-generation AI
- Perspectives from the healthcare sector: energy & resilience in mission-critical data centers
- Harnessing nuclear energy to address rising power demand from data center expansion
- Connecting data centers, securing networks, & powering resilience in the telecom sector
- Maximizing energy efficiency & strengthening grid resilience for data center expansion
- Securing & powering the digital backbone of the global economy across the financial service industry
- Accelerating cloud computing to support warfighter lethality & mission-effectiveness
Why You Should Attend This Summit
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented global build-out of digital infrastructure, with trillions of dollars flowing into data centers that will power the next generation of economic growth, defense capabilities, and technological leadership. As computing capacity, energy availability, and infrastructure security become strategic assets, understanding the intersection of data centers and national security has never been more urgent.
