Broadband Breakfast on March 5, 2025 - The Future of Data Centers
Join us to explore what’s next for the backbone of the digital economy.
Tune in for a discussion on the future of data centers as they scale to meet the soaring demands of cloud computing and AI. With energy consumption rising and federal policies shifting, how will operators navigate infrastructure challenges and sustainability commitments? This panel also serves as a preview to our March 27 summit, “Data Centers, Nuclear Power, and Broadband.” Join us to explore what’s next for the backbone of the digital economy.
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Panelists
- Christian Dawson, Executive Director, i2Coalition
- Fatima Maria Ahmad, Senior Vice President for Clean Energy, Boundary Stone
- Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast
Christian Dawson is the Co-Founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) where he works to make the Internet a better, safer place for the businesses that make up the Cloud. Dawson spent 16 years as an executive at web hosting provider ServInt. While there, he co-founded the Save Hosting initiative, designed to galvanize web hosting providers in their opposition of PIPA & SOPA. He went on to help found the i2Coalition to ensure that those who build the infrastructure of the Internet have a voice in all matters of public policy that affect them. He is a staunch advocate for Internet freedom as a tool for social and economic growth by fostering the growth and expansion of the Internet economy. Dawson served as the Chairman of the i2Coalition Board from 2012 to 2016. As of January 2016, Dawson has joined the i2Coalition in a full-time position as its first Executive Director.
Fatima Maria Ahmad is a Senior Vice President for Clean Energy in Boundary Stone’s Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining BSP, she served as Senior Counsel with the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in the 116th and 117th Congresses. Previously, she was a Senior Solutions Fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.
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better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission.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 initiative.
