An independent professional community for digital infrastructure.
Data Center Society brings together the professionals and organizations that develop, finance, power, connect, build, and operate data centers and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2026, it is independent and founder-led.
To connect the people and organizations behind digital infrastructure.
The Society exists to help practitioners across the ecosystem learn from one another, solve shared problems, and advance the independent and midsize projects that underpin the digital economy.
One industry, treated as one profession.
A professional community in which power, fiber, capital, development, and operations are treated as equally important parts of a single discipline, and in which education comes before promotion.
Independent. Founder-led. Education-first.
Independent and founder-led. Not affiliated with any university.
How the Society operates.
Practitioner-led
Programming is shaped by the professionals who do the work, not by vendors or sponsors.
Education-first
Programming exists to help members understand, decide, and build. Sessions teach before they sell.
Independent
Sponsors may support programming but do not control editorial content or guarantee speaking opportunities.
Open and inclusive
Open to professionals across the industry, regardless of organization size or discipline.
Open to professionals across the ecosystem.
The Society is open to practitioners across the industry, from development and operations to capital, power, fiber, and professional services.
- Developers
- Operators
- Institutional investors and lenders
- Utilities and grid operators
- Traditional power generators
- Behind-the-meter power providers
- Fiber network owners and carriers
- Engineers and contractors
- Equipment manufacturers
- Brokers and attorneys
- Valuation professionals
- Community stakeholders
Founder and leadership.
Suhail Tayyeb
Founder, Data Center Society
Suhail Tayyeb founded Data Center Society to bring the disciplines behind digital infrastructure together as one professional community. Over roughly twenty-five years, his work has spanned real estate development, investment, and valuation, together with work in data center and AI infrastructure education and industry convening. He started the Society to connect developers, operators, investors, utilities, power and fiber providers, engineers, and professional services firms around shared practical problems.
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Founding membership is open during the founding period.