2026 Electricity Steering Committee Half-Day Event
May 14 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Bring Your Own Questions (BYOQ) About Data Centers:Bridging the Knowledge Gap Between the Technology & Energy Sectors and Across Disciplines
The hybrid event aims to foster understanding and dialogue about data centers and their unprecedented demand for energy by bringing together experts from the technology and energy sectors, as well as by encouraging dialogue across disciplines. We will explore, for example, lessons from the dotcom bubble and other relevant historical events, where the interests of the tech sector and energy sector diverge/intersect and why, how did data centers end up configured the way they are today, and what is needed to meet this particular and unique moment.
SESSION 1: Missed Connections: A Roundtable of Experts from Diverse Fields and Disciplines Pose Their Burning Questions to One Another
**Chatham House Rules apply to BYOQ Roundtable
SESSION 2: The Hard Simple Questions:
What is a “data center”? What do energy lawyers need to better understand about data centers and AI?
**Chatham House Rules apply to Session 2
SESSION 3: Risks, Rules, Rewards, RTOs, and Regulators
What best practices are emerging? What questions still need to be answered? What questions should we be asking?

| Registration Types | Member | Nonmember |
| Registration | $75 | $95 |
| Student Registration | Free | $20 |

