Broadband Breakfast on August 27, 2025 - Dateline Ashburn: What We Learned

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Loudoun County, Virginia, also known as Data Center Alley, is the capital of the world when it comes to physical data center locations. Ashburn, located in Loudoun County, boasts more than 143 of these data centers, and handles a significant portion of global internet traffic. As the demand for large-scale computing rises, issues of security, energy and water consumption grow in tandem with quality of life. During the week beginning August 25, 2025, Broadband Breakfast published articles – "Dateline Ashburn" – diving into their past and future. How is the demand for AI changing how our nation approaches infrastructure? How secure and resilient are U.S. data centers? What's needed to strengthen them?

Panelists

• Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Breakfast Media LLC CEO Drew Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission. As CEO and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media community advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband office.

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