NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In less than one week, the people deciding how the AI era gets built will be in the same building. Yotta 2026 opens Sept. 28 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas with more than 6,500 senior leaders, including more than 600 CEOs, making it the most senior gathering in digital infrastructure and, for three days, the dealmaking capital of the industry.
Capital committed to AI infrastructure has passed a trillion dollars, interconnection queues are now measured in years and the fight over who pays for AI’s power has moved out of utility commissions and into statehouses. Yotta is the week the companies at the center of those stories and more go on the record.
The Sessions to Watch
The Yotta 2026 agenda consists of more than 180 sessions across three mini-summits, eight conference tracks, three expo stages and one main stage. Among the sessions likely to draw the most attention are:
- The Trillion-Dollar Buildout: Who Wins the AI Infrastructure Race? with Adam Selipsky, co-founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, the KKR-backed venture combining data centers, power and networks in a single platform.
- The Utility’s Dilemma: Can the Grid Deliver the AI Boom? with Maria Pope, president and CEO of Portland General Electric.
- The Social License Crisis: Can Data Centers Win Back the Public? with Chris Crosby, founder and CEO of Compass Datacenters, and Tag Greason, co-CEO of QTS Data Centers.
- The GPU Myth: Why AI Compute Won’t Be a Commodity with Stephen Balaban, co-founder and CTO of Lambda.
- Earth vs Orbit: When Does the Math Flip? as part of the first Orbital Compute Summit at Yotta, treating space-based compute as an investable asset class rather than science fiction.
- Building the Workforce for the AI Economy, opening the Build Summit with Taylor Stockton, chief innovation officer at the U.S. Department of Labor.
They join a main stage that includes Ami Badani (chief marketing officer, Arm), Vladimir Troy (VP of AI infrastructure, NVIDIA), Dylan Patel (founder, CEO and chief analyst, SemiAnalysis), Chase Lochmiller (co-founder and CEO, Crusoe), Andy Hock (chief strategy officer, Cerebras Systems), Adrian Guggisberg (president, distribution solutions division, ABB), Varun Sivaram (founder and CEO, Emerald AI), Dan Golding (CTO, ASG) and Ann Davis Vaughan (AI infrastructure columnist, The Information). Across the tracks, Chris Malone (head of data centers, OpenAI), Matthew Hull (VP of AI infrastructure, Google), Lon Huber (SVP and chief planning officer, Xcel Energy), Peter de Bock (VP of data center energy and cooling, Eaton) and Raman Sharma (chief strategy officer, Equinix) are among more than 300 speakers on the program.
“The building, the power, the chip and the capital stopped being separate conversations a long time ago,” said George Rockett, co-founder of Yotta. “What is different this year is the pressure. Every company here is being asked to move faster than the grid, the supply chain or the permitting process currently allows. Next week is where they work out how.”
The Industry’s Biggest Hardtech Showcase
The Yotta Expo is the largest showcase of data center hardtech in the industry, and this year it runs indoors and out. More than 350 sponsors and exhibitors will show their latest technology across engineering, construction, energy, cooling, compute and operations, joined by a new outdoor Campus Exhibit on Forum Plaza where modular data centers, generators and cooling systems will be installed at working scale for attendees to walk inside and explore. Participating companies include ABB, AECOM, Bloom Energy, Cadence, Celestica, Constellation Energy, Crusoe, CyrusOne, DG Matrix, Eaton, ENGIE, Giga Energy, Hitachi Energy, IREN, Johnson Controls, Lambda, Lenovo, Mission Critical Group, ON.energy, Schneider Electric, Siemens Energy, Tate, Trane Technologies, Vertiv, VoltaGrid, WhiteWater and WTG Energy.
Where the Business Actually Gets Done
Yotta is engineered so the hours between sessions are as productive as the sessions themselves. The networking program spans thousands of pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings, working breakfasts and lunches, expert-led roundtables, nine community meetups, an early-morning 5K and events throughout the evenings: a Kickoff Party on night one, the iMasons Awards Gala on night two and a full takeover of Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas on the final night with DJ Pauly D on the decks.
One Week Left
Pass prices are higher at the door than they are online, and hotel rooms are thinning with only a few days to go. Register before you travel to lock in the lower rate and join the leaders building the future of digital infrastructure.
About Yotta 2026
Yotta 2026 (https://yotta-event.com/) will bring together senior executives from critical infrastructure providers, IT hardware and software OEMs, network and telco providers, data centers, hyperscalers, energy leaders, investors and enterprise IT organizations. Co-founded by George Rockett, co-founder of Datacenter Dynamics, and Rebecca Sausner, a global events entrepreneur, Yotta unites the digital infrastructure ecosystem to tackle the industry’s most complex and consequential challenges.
About InfraXmedia
Yotta Events Inc. is owned by InfraXmedia (https://www.infraxmedia.com/) which invests in data-driven B2B media and events platforms that are transforming the way professionals connect with peers, learn and transact across the trillion dollar digital infrastructure segment. The company’s portfolio includes DatacenterDynamics [DCD], Data Center Nation, SDxCentral and Yotta Events.
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