On this episode, Norton Rose Fulbright’s Ammad Waheed joins Kyle Younker to discuss why “powered land” now defines data center strategy. He explores its spectrum, valuation by megawatt, and rising importance of speed to power. The discussion also covers development risks, financing and leasing dynamics, and growing community scrutiny shaping the industry’s next phase. NPM is a leading data, intelligence & events company providing business development led coverage of the US & European ...

terralayr CEO Philipp Man joins NPM to discuss the evolution of the company’s virtualised battery storage model and the rapidly changing dynamics of the German BESS market. Philipp reflects on the original idea behind founding terralayr in 2023, key milestones in building its proprietary trading platform, and where the business now stands following a landmark equity raise concluded earlier in 2026. The conversation also explores financing conditions for battery storage in Germany, evolv...

In this episode, host Kyle Younker sits down with Liam Weld, Head of Data Centers at Meter, to explore how AI is reshaping the modern data center from the inside out. While data centers are often discussed in terms of land and power, Weld explains why networking has become one of the most critical—yet underappreciated—drivers of performance and cost in AI facilities. The conversation unpacks the shift from traditional north–south traffic to east–west traffic between GPUs, why AI clusters now ...

On this week’s episode, we sat down with Emmanuel Becker, CEO of Mediterra Datacenters, a Southern European data centre business backed by PEIF III, a fund managed by DWS Infrastructure. Becker discusses investor appetite, the reasons behind focusing on Tier II markets, and the huge potential for growth across the Southern European data centre market. He also reveals what he believes to be the biggest challenge in the market – which may come as a surprise to some. NPM is a leading data,...

On this week’s episode, we sat down with Jennifer Smith, CFO of Pan-European fibre infrastructure operator and telco service provider Zayo Europe to discuss the critical role connectivity plays in the rapidly expanding data centre market. Smith examined the growing partnerships between fibre providers and data centre operators – including its recently announced venture with QTS for its EUR 10bn Cambois project – and unpacked some of the key challenges shaping the sector today. NPM is a leadin...

On this week’s episode, Land & Liberty Coalition National Director Bradley Pischea joins utility-scale reporter Kaitlin Fallowfield to discuss his observations on early permitting trends in rural communities. Pischea discusses a recent in-depth analysis that the Land & Liberty Coalition published, which breaks down perceptions on renewable projects and how the organization’s involvement in some counties changed those feelings. In addition to using conservative messaging to...

In this episode, Chaberton Energy CEO Stefano Ratti explains how the company is expanding into front-of-the-meter, distribution-level battery storage by leveraging its community solar expertise to develop standalone storage, solar-plus-storage projects, and retrofits of existing solar sites. Active primarily in states like Maryland, Illinois, and Massachusetts, Chaberton targets markets with strong policy support and urgent grid capacity needs where distributed storage can be deployed f...

On this week’s episode, AtlasEdge CEO Tesh Durvasula joins Madeline Sherratt to unpack the company’s European growth strategy and shifting data centre landscape. Tesh highlights Lisbon as a key hub in AtlasEdge’s Iberian expansion, citing strong connectivity, renewable energy, and rising demand. He also explains the rationale behind the sale of nine edge data centres, as the company refocuses on larger, scalable campuses targeting hyperscalers and major enterprises. The discussion explores gr...

On this week's episode, Alsym Energy COO Graeme Grant joins Andrew Burnes to discuss the growing opportunity for sodium-ion batteries to take hold in the battery storage landscape of the US. Graeme discusses the state of the sodium-ion market today as compared to lithium-ion and some of the benefits of the burgeoning technology but also challenges that sodium-ion will need to overcome to reach commercial market adoption. The discussion also dives into the recent release from the US Trea...

Harmony Energy Development Director Frances Nicholson joins NPM to share experiences on project development in the UK over what has proved to be a highly active and pivotal recent period for the renewables sector in the country. Developers are routinely dealing with organised opposition to proposals, patchy political support, consent refusals and appeals, all while navigating through an at-times unpredictable and delayed connections reform process being undertaken to rationalise the gri...