Powering Progress | Ep. 4 – The Power Supply Challenge: Delivering Energy for AI Growth

Welcome back to Powering Progress, our series of conversations exploring the infrastructure, capital, and legal frameworks shaping the next generation of AI and data center development. Artificial intelligence is driving an extraordinary surge in data center demand, but behind every server and processor is a far more fundamental question: where will the power come from, and how will it be delivered reliably and at scale? In this episode, Vinson & Elkins' Chief Innovation Officer Aubrey Bishai is joined by Energy & Infrastructure Projects Partner Mark Brasher, who advises clients on power development, power purchase agreements, EPC contracts, and the complex interconnection challenges that increasingly define large-scale digital infrastructure. Together they discuss the questions developers, investors, and operators are asking as they plan the power strategies behind the AI economy.