Industries
Data Centers
De-risking the next generation of digital infrastructure
- Overview
- People
Global demand for AI and cloud infrastructure is accelerating – colliding with grid constraints, permitting friction, and labor shortages that are reshaping how data center programs are funded and delivered. For owners, developers, builders, and capital providers, success depends on the ability to execute complex, AI-ready facilities with speed, certainty, and disciplined risk management.
Ankura helps clients Protect, Create, and Recover ValueTM by connecting power strategy, capital formation, project delivery, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and dispute resolution into a single, integrated approach. We support hyperscale and colocation developers aligning site, power, and capital strategies; EPC and specialty contractors managing execution risk and schedule performance; and investors and lenders evaluating, monitoring, and recovering capital across portfolios.
Our multidisciplinary team operates across the full lifecycle – from feasibility and structuring through commissioning, operations, and, when needed, dispute resolution and expert testimony – enabling clients to de-risk decisions, maintain momentum, and deliver complex data center programs with confidence.
Featured Services
We help owners, developers, and investors evaluate feasibility, align power and site strategies, and structure governance and capital frameworks to support scalable, AI-ready data center programs.
We provide project controls, construction monitoring, contract strategy, and systems integration support to help complex data center programs stay on schedule, on budget, and aligned with performance expectations.
We support owners and operators in establishing operations frameworks, labor strategies, and interim leadership to ensure data centers transition smoothly into reliable, efficient, steady-state operations.
We assess risk, identify root causes of delays or cost overruns, and implement recovery strategies to stabilize data center programs and protect capital.
We combine forensic schedule analysis, quantum expertise, and expert testimony to help clients understand project issues, allocate responsibility, and support dispute resolution across data center programs.
Our construction dispute resolution professionals provide expert advice, forensic analyses, and independent professional opinions in clear, concise, and objective manners in a wide variety of venues, including international tribunals and specialized regulatory boards.
Our industry professionals focus on key areas of an organizational structure and existing processes to identify areas for enhancement and improvement to minimize risk, increase efficiency and effectiveness and maximize enterprise value.
Key Contacts
- John Byrne
Senior Managing Director
Philadelphia, PA
- Monark Vyas
Senior Managing Director
San Francisco, CA
- William Brown
Senior Managing Director
Houston, TX
- Matthew Finn
Senior Managing Director
London, England
