Wayne Barnett
Wayne Barnett
Speaker
Vice President, Development, Strategy & External Affairs

Centerstream

United States

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Data centers: underwriting the interconnect

Wayne Barnett
Vice President, Development, Strategy & External Affairs,
Centerstream
Tim McGuire
Vice President, Capital Markets,
Rowan Digital Infrastructure

  • Treating interconnection as the project: queue, upgrade cost and COD lag.
  • How do utilities and grids handle large new loads?
  • Tracing deposits and LCs: who posts, who refunds, who is stuck on delay
  • Weighing powered land versus RFS before a tenant is in the room
  • Pressure-testing county votes, permits, water and cooling on large-load sites
  • Assigning residual merchant and curtailment when the tenant is a tech name