Originally posted on Data Center POST
Industry leaders gathered at Frederick Community College (FCC) on Thursday, August 29, 2024 for the Maryland Tech Council’s inaugural Data Center Summit, offering insights into the future of data center development and sustainability for Maryland.
The keynote panel, titled “Doing Data Centers Better,” was moderated by Maryland Tech Council CEO Kelly Schulz and featured Aligned Data Centers Chief Innovation Officer Phill Lawson-Shanks Rowan Digital Infrastructure Chief Executive Officer John Lucas, Quantum Loophole President and Co-Founder Scott Noteboom, and Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Chief Executive Officer Santiago Suinaga as panelists. The panel highlighted the industry’s rapid growth and its pivot towards more sustainable practices, looking forward to the next 20 years of data center development through an Ecoscale lens in order to establish a collaborative ecosystem between industry, government and community.
Noteboom emphasized the importance of master-planned communities for data centers. He compared the current shift to master-planned data center communities to the prominence of suburban development between a Post World War II era: “It’s very similar to post-war housing and suburban populations, where people moved out of the cities, they started building suburban areas. And then in the last 20 or years or so, particularly in North America, there was a move to master planning communities, so you had a concentration of resources.”
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