The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is reshaping the global construction landscape. Few companies exemplify this transformation better than Nscale, the London headquartered AI hyperscaler that has rapidly emerged as one of Europe's most significant data centre developers. Founded to deliver sovereign AI infrastructure at scale, Nscale has attracted billions in investment, secured major partnerships with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI and is developing large-scale AI campuses across the UK and Europe. Its rapid growth reflects the unprecedented demand for AI compute capacity and the critical role data centres now play in national digital infrastructure.

As investment accelerates and project timelines compress, the construction and insurance sectors face a new generation of risks. AI-focused data centres are larger, more power-intensive and more technically complex than traditional facilities, creating challenges around design, supply chain resilience, grid connectivity, commissioning, fire protection, cyber resilience, environmental exposures and operational continuity. At the same time, insurers are being asked to assess emerging risks associated with high-density computing, advanced cooling technologies and increasingly concentrated asset values.

In this fireside chat audiences will gain unique insight into how Nscale has evolved to meet the rising risk demands of both a rapidly expanding company and global data centre expansion. The discussion will explore the evolving risk and insurance landscape surrounding the construction and operation of AI-focused data centres. From power and cooling infrastructure to supply chain resilience, commissioning, fire protection, cyber threats and operational continuity, the session will examine the key exposures facing the sector and how the insurance market is responding.