Your digital infrastructure investments demand legal counsel as sophisticated as your technology. Holland & Hart delivers end-to-end expertise for your most complex infrastructure challenges.
Data centers form the backbone of our digital economy. As these mission-critical facilities rapidly expand in size and complexity, unique legal challenges arise at every stage of development and operation. Our integrated multidisciplinary team guides clients through the legal hurdles to successfully develop, construct, and operate these complex facilities.
Strategic site selection and credible relationships with local, state, and federal authorities are key to developing a new data center. Holland & Hart’s deep footprint in the Mountain West supports all aspects of the development phase, from zoning, permitting, environmental compliance, to securing reliable water rights for data center cooling operations, even in water-constrained markets.
Our project development team has extensive experience throughout the United States with the development and construction of large scale projects, including turn-key, EPC, construction management, and operations and maintenance agreements.
Reliable power supply is crucial to data center operations and our team brings comprehensive energy expertise. Whether obtaining power from the incumbent electric utility, onsite generation, or remotely-supplied generation, we bring regulatory and transactional expertise to help clients navigate the complex frameworks governing energy supply. We negotiate retail supply agreements, sleeve and other supply agreements with utilities and alternative power providers. We also structure the sale of environmental attributes, and equipment leases, as well as complex interconnection agreements. For data centers prioritizing building their own generation, from greenfield through commercial operation, our power supply team has extensive experience in the development of renewable and thermal facilities to meet data center needs.
Our telecommunications and infrastructure services team brings technical depth and operational understanding to every connectivity requirement. We guide clients through complex network architecture decisions, from carrier-neutral connectivity options to redundant fiber pathways. Our attorneys negotiate the full spectrum of essential agreements—including fiber deployment, IRU agreements, colocation arrangements, and service level agreements with carriers—ensuring optimal performance and risk management. We also provide strategic counsel on data security compliance, technology procurement, and equipment deployment to create resilient digital infrastructure that meets both current needs and future expansion requirements.
When market opportunities arise, our corporate team stands ready to support data center clients through transformative transactions. We guide clients through acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and complex financing arrangements, helping investors and operators capitalize on growth potential while maneuvering through due diligence and regulatory considerations inherent in digital infrastructure deals.
Speed matters in data center development. Our team delivers efficient legal solutions to get facilities online and keep them running smoothly long after the servers go live.