Speakers
Education Session
The AI infrastructure buildout is the largest land-and-power rush in a generation, and the skills that built oil and gas—title, leasehold, surface use, right-of-way, and multi-party negotiation—are exactly what hyperscale data center development requires. This session walks landmen through where the data center work sits today, how a hyperscale site deal differs from a traditional oil and gas lease, how grid interconnection and utility tariffs drive site selection in unfamiliar ways, and how landmen can position themselves for the next decade of digital infrastructure work. Drawn from deals representing tens of billions of dollars of in-flight AI data center capital.
Vincent Whisker is Senior Director of Commercial Development at Crusoe, the Denver-headquartered AI infrastructure company, where he leads origination and execution of AI data center campuses representing tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure investment. His focus is energy and power: structuring gas-fired generation, grid interconnection, utility and independent power producer partnerships, and long-term power supply agreements that unlock hyperscale compute sites across North America.
Vincent began his career in upstream oil and gas before pivoting to digital infrastructure, where he applies that energy background to the power-first logic of modern data center development. He holds a B.S. from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.B.A. from Regis University, and lives in the Denver area with his family.