Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure
Integrated Legal Strategy for Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Projects
Digital infrastructure projects require more than traditional legal advice. They demand an integrated approach across power availability, real estate development, capital formation, regulatory requirements, and execution. Mintz attorneys advise at this intersection, working with developers, owners, and operators; strategic and financial investors; lenders and capital providers; and tenants and enterprise users to plan, structure, finance, and execute complex, power-intensive digital infrastructure projects.
Mintz supports powered land developers, hyperscalers, enterprise data centers, colocation platforms, fiber networks, and the full power and capital ecosystem that enables these projects, including independent power producers and co-located generation providers. Our work spans projects driven by sponsors and emerging platforms, real estate owners and investment managers, and hosting and colocation providers, as well as the financial institutions, commercial lenders, private credit providers, infrastructure funds, and government-backed financing sources funding these projects.
Our team brings a cohesive approach to complex, first-of-a-kind transactions, aligning power strategy, real estate, capital structures, regulatory considerations, and technology agreements early in the process to help organizations across industries execute with clarity and scale with confidence.
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Chambers USA
Recognized in Massachusetts, New York and Southern California for Real Estate Law.
U.S. News and Best Lawyers®
Recognized in Massachusetts, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco for Real Estate Law.
Leading Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Practice
Ranked as a leading practice by Chambers USA 2025.
CorporateINTL
Projects & Infrastructure Practice chair listed as the Infrastructure Project Finance Lawyer of the Year in Washington D.C. – 2024, CorporateINTL
Law360 MVP
Projects & Infrastructure Practice chair recognized as Project Finance “MVP” by Law360.
Chambers USA
Ayaz Shaikh ranked for Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy and Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional
Chambers USA
Steven Shparber ranked for Energy/Electricity - Regulatory & Litigation
Our Experience
Nationally recognized, industry team that has served clients since the industry’s birth more than 30 years ago
Developed, acquired, financed, sold and/or leased more than 40 million square feet of data center, interconnection facility, and colocation space
Negotiated several of the largest data center leases, including an 830,000 square foot data center lease that (at the time) was the largest ever in the US
Our Approach
Clients rely on our fully integrated legal team with experience across power, real estate development, capital, regulation, technology, and execution to support digital infrastructure and data center initiatives. This approach enables strategic alignment from the outset.
We bring experience coordinating complex, multiparty project structures, including co-located data center and power projects where development, financing, interconnection, and offtake arrangements must align.
- Real estate strategy and power and energy regulatory matters, including FERC
- Project development and project finance
- Private equity, M&A, and investment structuring
- Tax, environmental, and permitting matters
- Construction contracting and infrastructure development
- Telecommunications and technology transactions and licensing
- Privacy, cybersecurity, and data governance
- Government relations
By combining legal strategy with deep sector experience across data centers, power, and digital infrastructure platforms, clients are better positioned to anticipate complexity, manage risk earlier, and execute efficiently in a fast-evolving market. The focus remains on practical, business-driven solutions that support growth, resilience, and long-term value.
We support digital infrastructure and data center projects across the full development and financing life cycle, from site control and power strategy through construction, commercialization, and long-term financing.
Powered land development across multiple jurisdictions with experience in assisting clients with site selection, transaction structuring, site acquisition, power procurement, and project sale
- Platform structuring and ownership arrangements, including majority or minority investments, joint ventures, and governance frameworks
- Project development and financing, including construction and term debt, tax equity, structured and hybrid financings, and advice to sponsors, developers, and lenders across the capital stack
- Leasing and siting, including data center, tower, and fiber asset leasing structures, site acquisition, zoning, land use, and permitting strategies
- Regulatory and compliance advisory, including FERC-related matters, interconnection, power market participation, and energy regulatory frameworks impacting digital infrastructure assets
- Power strategy and procurement, including grid interconnection, co-located generation (gas, renewables, storage), PPAs, and behind-the-meter solutions
- Financing solutions across the project life cycle, including construction and term loans, mezzanine and structured financings, revolving credit facilities, ground leases, and off-balance-sheet structures
- Construction and operations contracting, including EPC, O&M, and shared infrastructure agreements
- Fiber and network infrastructure agreements, including indefeasible rights of use (IRUs), easements, access rights, and interconnection agreements
- Commercial and operational agreements supporting digital infrastructure platforms, including colocation, interconnection, hyperscale, and carrier arrangements
- Negotiation of colocation master service and service-level agreements
- Hyperscale contracting and commercial negotiations, including master service agreements and service-level agreements
- Capital-efficient transactions and monetization strategies, including sale-leaseback structures and alternative asset-level platform structures
Meet Mintz
Member / Co-Chair, Digital Infrastructure Practice
Member / Co-Chair, Digital Infrastructure Practice
Member / Chair, Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Practice
Member / Chair, Technology, Communications & Media Practice
Member / Managing Member, DC Office
Member / Co-chair, Private Equity Practice
Member / Co-Chair, Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Practice
Member / Chair, Communications Infrastructure Litigation Practice
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