Data Center World 2025: A week of insight, scale, and strategic presence

April 18, 2025

Linxon Americas joined the industry’s leading voices in Washington, D.C., for a high-impact week of conversations on energy, infrastructure, and the accelerating demands of digital growth. Backed by a strong on-site presence from our Board and Executive Leadership team.

From April 14–17, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the heart of downtown D.C., hosted Data Center World 2025, the leading event for digital infrastructure professionals. With more than 4,000 attendees, 400+ exhibitors, 160 expert speakers, and 70+ conference sessions, the event reflected the scale, urgency, and innovation shaping today’s data center landscape.

Linxon Board and Leadership team at Data Center World 2025, Washington D.C.
Linxon Board and Leadership team at Data Center World 2025, Washington D.C.

Throughout the week, our Linxon Americas team engaged with industry leaders, clients, and partners to discuss the execution challenges of the sector: grid access, power density, project speed, and sustainability. Conversations centered on how data centers must now implement new ideas and technologies within 30 to 60 days—a drastic acceleration from previous years. This compressed timeline is reshaping how infrastructure must be delivered, and why end-to-end EPC support is more critical than ever.

Key moments from the week included:

  • Kevin O’Leary’s keynote on investment trends: The well-known investor and entrepreneur spotlighted data centers as the next frontier in large-scale infrastructure investment, referencing the Wonder Valley project in Alberta as a key example of how the sector is attracting serious capital to meet AI-driven demands.
  • NVIDIA’s approach to speed and energy optimization: NVIDIA’s Chief Data Center Engineer presented how the company is using digital twin technology to design and deploy high-performance data centers in less than three weeks. Their insights on accelerating deployment while reducing energy use resonated across the show floor.
  • A new energy model from Google and Kairos Power: A joint session from Google and Kairos Power explored the future of nuclear energy in data centers. Their roadmap to deploy 500 MW of clean energy by 2030 through small modular reactors points to the growing urgency—and creativity—in solving power challenges.
  • The essential role of EPC in enabling rapid scale: As data centers compress deployment timelines to 30–60 days, engineering, procurement, and construction partners are no longer an afterthought—they are strategic enablers. Linxon’s presence highlighted how integrated EPC delivery ensures speed, grid reliability, and seamless energization at scale.

As data centers scale with increasing speed and complexity, Linxon remains focused on delivering infrastructure that is engineered for reliability and built for what’s next. Thank you to our clients, partners, and visitors who joined us at booth #1206 in Washington, D.C. The future of digital infrastructure is being built now—and we’re ready to lead the way.