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“The whole thing is run completely by AI, so behind the scenes, I mean, it’s a network with 31 locations around the world, and internally there’s a mesh network, and I can’t, as a human being, manage all of this by myself,” Lyon said. Lyon said the team modeled every site, down to the wire and the optic, in a virtual model before building. An infrastructure management system running the company’s own AI on its own hardware then ordered the installation. It orchestrated shipping and delivery through data center APIs. Human technicians performed the remote smart hands installations. The company also built tools for agents to work with users and with the network. An agent gateway gives an AI agent an identity in the doxx.net chat app. The user pastes a credential into the agent. The agent obtains its certificate and appears in the user’s chat. Users can create group chats with several agents. In one example, Lyon said one agent runs BGP while others handle other tasks.

For years, the data center industry’s biggest constraints were largely physical, centered on power, transmission, land, water, equipment and labor. As the AI infrastructure buildout accelerates, however, another constraint is moving rapidly to the foreground. The constraint, and the concern, is whether host communities, regulators and policymakers believe the next generation of data centers is being built on terms that work for them, too. That question received a fresh exclamation point on Oct. 2, when Amazon Web Services announced it will invest more than $1 billion over five years in U.S. communities where it operates data centers, with funding aimed at areas including energy affordability, water and natural-resource protection, workforce development and education. The initiative arrives as electricity and water consumption associated with hyperscale infrastructure faces increasing scrutiny in communities across the country. And AWS is responding to a policy environment that is changing quickly. In Virginia, Loudoun County supervisors have begun a process that could pause action on certain new data center and substation applications for as long as 12 months while the county reviews its development policies. The board is scheduled to consider the proposed pause Oct. 20. Just next door, Prince William County voted Sept. 22 to dramatically shrink the area where data centers can be developed by right, largely shifting future projects outside the revised overlay into a case-by-case special-use permitting process. The issue is spreading well beyond Northern Virginia. On Sept. 23, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order creating a statewide framework for data center development centered on ratepayer protection, environmental impacts, community participation, transparency and accountability. Meanwhile, the U.S. House on Sept. 16 passed the Ratepayer Protection Act by a 417–3 vote, seeking to prevent data centers and other large loads from shifting the incremental costs of new generation and grid infrastructure onto

Making the assumption that hyperscalers’ capital expenditure amounts to about 25% of revenue, they would need the AI market to be worth $6 trillion annually. But, said Bain, the current consumer and enterprise AI markets together could be worth up to $1.8 trillion by 2031, leaving a whopping $4.2 trillion still to find from new markets. Bain highlighted four potential areas: the use of AI in search; the development of more autonomous vehicles, including drones; physical AI, including digital twins and robotics; and new product development, for example, breakthroughs in pharmaceuticals.

Network protection: As networking and security converge, Rahim said HPE continues to embed security throughout the network by combining SASE, network access control, firewalls, identity-based policy enforcement, and AI-powered operations. HPE’s security revenue is expected to grow at a high-single-digit percent CAGR through fiscal 2029. Partners: On Nov. 1, HPE will converge the Juniper and Aruba programs under one unified partner program, HPE Partner Ready Vantage. “Partners drive most of our networking business, and this milestone will enable all 60,000 HPE partners to sell the full networking portfolio through one unified partner program. Before the acquisition, only around 10% of HPE Aruba Networking and Juniper partners overlapped, and so this creates a significant cross-selling opportunity as we bring the combined HPE Networking portfolio to a much broader set of sellers and customers.” Service growth: “Today, services represent about one-third of our HPE Networking business. Services deepen customer relationships, add higher margin recurring revenue, and improve the quality of our products driving durable earnings,” Rahim said. HPE sees an opportunity to bring that business model and the culture to Aruba across a much larger installed base. “So, by fiscal 2028, we expect to increase services attach rates by five percentage points, supporting both recurring revenue growth and margin expansion,” Rahim said.

The Cases Writing the Rules The regulatory questions surrounding private power are no longer theoretical. Federal regulators, regional grid operators and state utility commissions are already confronting disputes over co-located generation, transmission obligations, large-load tariffs and the financial commitments required from data center customers. Amazon–Talen Puts Co-Location Before FERC The Amazon–Talen–Susquehanna dispute became the most prominent federal test of how far a co-located data center can separate its power supply from the regional grid while remaining connected to the grid’s reliability framework. Amazon Web Services operates a data center campus adjacent to Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. In 2024, the parties sought to expand the co-located load from 300 MW to 480 MW through an amended interconnection agreement with PJM. The proposed structure would have allowed the campus to receive more power directly from the nuclear plant while reducing the plant’s capacity interconnection rights on the PJM system. FERC rejected the amendment in November 2024, concluding that PJM had not justified the nonstandard provisions in the agreement. Importantly, the Commission did not prohibit co-location or dedicated generation. The dispute instead exposed a larger gap in existing transmission rules: how should a large load located beside a generator be measured, what transmission service does it require, what happens when the generator is unavailable, and how should the project pay for continued access to regional reliability? Those questions soon moved beyond the Amazon–Talen project itself. In December 2025, FERC found that PJM’s existing framework did not provide sufficiently clear and consistent rules for generators serving co-located loads or for transmission customers taking service on their behalf. The Commission directed PJM to develop defined interconnection and operating requirements along with transmission options ranging from conventional network service to firm and non-firm contract-demand structures. The central issue is deceptively simple: physical proximity