Data Centers

King & Spalding’s dedicated data center practice has extensive real-world experience and a deep understanding of the issues that are unique to the business and operations of data centers. We regularly advise data center owners, private equity funds, developers and institutional investors, cloud providers and other market participants in growing the digital ecosystem to meet the demand for major industrial, energy and digital infrastructure growth.

Execution of a data center investment program requires a “one stop shop” offering with the best-in-class experience covering the full lifecycle of capital formation, data center development and the surrounding ecosystem of supporting infrastructure. Our team knows what is market, and is able to anticipate and mitigate issues unique to the business and operations of data centers, especially as it relates technological innovation and regulatory developments.

Our innovative approach ranges from the execution of first-in-kind global framework agreement, multibillion dollar joint ventures for development of greenfield facilities and over $18 billion in securitization and asset-backed deal volume to internal and government investigations, litigation and regulatory reviews before federal, state, local and territorial regulators. This wide-ranging offering across the development, construction, commercialization and optimization of data center projects is supported by lawyers across practices:

Real Estate	Sourcing and Commercial Agreements
Construction	Facilities Outsourcing/Management
Finance and Project Finance	Economic Development and Incentives
Corporate/M&A/JVs	Global Human Capital and Compliance
Technology Transactions	Environmental, Health and Safety
Power Procurement and Project Development	Disputes Special Matters and Government Investigations