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Panel: A spotlight on contracting trends

Wednesday 3 June 2026
Discovery Stage, hosted by Schneider Electric
Green Zone

This panel will explore how contracting trends are changing due to the scale of AI gigafactories. Contract terms are varying to spread out the risk between the tenant and the operator. Early termination rights, early termination fees, supply chain failures are now more balanced towards the tenant.  

  • How are power failures affecting who holds the risk? 

  • How is the contracting differing for the AI Gigafactories vs traditional data centre builds? 

  • How is warranty & indemnity insurance adapting? 

Chairperson
Kemal Hawa, Corporate Partner - Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Speakers
Atif Ansar, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder - Foresight
David Dzienciol, Chief Customer and Commercial Officer - NextDC
Alanna Hasek, European General Counsel - CYRUSONE
Cabrelle Abel, Partner and Associate General Counsel - MICROSOFT
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