About event
DICE (Data Centers Investment Conference & Expo) is Bisnow's dedicated conference series for the data center industry. Power, Capital and the New Rules of Building in the Carolinas. The Carolinas have moved past the point where being called an emerging market makes sense, but the region hasn't been fully repriced by capital, power planners or local governments to match that shift. Duke Energy's contracted data center load has surged past 7.6 GW behind a $103 billion capital plan, construction spending in the region is up 32% year over year, and two states are actively rewriting the rules for who pays for grid buildout and how fast local tolerance runs out. Every stakeholder in this room, whether they're deploying capital, running site selection or building the asset, is making decisions in a market where the fundamentals are shifting faster than the playbooks built for Northern Virginia or Texas.
Key Speakers

Edmund Driggs
District 7 Council Member

Mara Ervin
Director, Data Centers

Marcus Hassen
VP, Mission Critical Operations & Group Manager

