Powering Progress

Our podcast series explores the legal and regulatory frameworks shaping the next generation of digital infrastructure, such as advancements in AI and data center development. Hosted by Vinson & Elkins’ Chief Innovation Officer Aubrey Bishai, each episode welcomes one of our experienced partners to share their perspectives.

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  Powering Progress | Ep. 12 – Rethinking the Grid for AI

  Sep 15, 202615 minS0

  <p>This series has explored the extraordinary amount of power required to support the growth of AI and data centers, but having demand for power and actually getting that power to a data center are two very different things.</p><p>The regulatory framework governing the electric grid was built for a very different era.</p><p>Today, developers and utilities are confronting enormous new loads, compressed development timelines, constrained transmission systems, and evolving rules about who can connect to the grid, where the power will come from, and even who can sell it.</p><p>In this episode, Vinson...

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  Powering Progress | Ep. 11 – The Incentive Challenge: Navigating the New Tax Landscape for Data Centers

  Aug 17, 202612 minS0

  As AI infrastructure investment accelerates, developers, investors, and operators are making long-term decisions based on assumptions about power, financing, and regulation and taxes; but one of those assumptions is changing. For years, states competed aggressively to attract data center investment through generous tax incentives. Today, however, several states are reevaluating those programs, introducing new taxes, pausing incentive offerings, or reconsidering policies that many investors once viewed as stable. So what happens when today's assumptions no longer hold? In this episode, Vinson & Elkins' Chief Innovation Officer Aubrey Bishai is joined by Co-Head of Tax Controversy Kathy Pakenham, to discuss the rapidly...

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  Powering Progress | Ep. 10 – Building Resilience into AI Infrastructure

  Jul 29, 202610 minS0

  Much of the conversation around AI infrastructure has focused on growth, new data centers, unprecedented capital investment, rising power demand, and the race to build capacity fast enough to keep up. But every major infrastructure boom eventually enters a different phase. Projects become operational, markets evolve, technologies advance, regulations change, and the contracts that looked straightforward during periods of rapid expansion are put to the test. So what happens when today's assumptions no longer hold? In this episode, Vinson & Elkins' Chief Innovation Officer Aubrey Bishai is joined by International Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Partner James Barratt, who advises clients on complex...

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  Powering Progress | Ep. 9 – Protecting the Advantage

  Jun 24, 202611 minS0

  As AI and data center development continue to accelerate, much of the conversation has focused on power, infrastructure, financing, and scale, but behind every major technological shift is another critical issue that organizations increasingly have to navigate. Innovation governance is the framework we use at Vinson & Elkins to help companies identify, protect, manage, and ultimately maximize the value of their intellectual property, data, technology, and proprietary systems, including protecting against claims from other rights holders. And in today's environment, that challenge is becoming more complex and more important than ever. Modern data centers are no longer just physical infrastructure assets...

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  Powering Progress | Ep. 8 – Markets Under Pressure

  Jun 17, 202611 minS0

  As AI adoption accelerates and data center development expands across the country the conversation around infrastructure increasingly comes back to one central issue: power, but access to power is not simply an engineering or development challenge, its also deeply tied to the regulatory framework that govern wholesale electricity markets, transmission systems, energy trading, reliability requirements, and market operations. The scale and speed of projected data center growth are creating new pressures across the energy ecosystem, raising important questions about how existing regulatory structures will adapt to rapidly evolving demand. In this episode, Vinson & Elkins' Chief Innovation Officer Aubrey Bishai is...

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