AI Data Center Night
AI Data Center Night: The Infrastructure Race Behind AI
Compute, power, capital, and the data centers scaling the AI economy.
The AI boom is running into a physical infrastructure problem.
Compute demand is rising faster than the systems built to support it. Power is constrained. Sites are harder to secure. Data centers are becoming harder to finance, build, energize, cool, and operate fast enough to meet demand.
Join SFPlayground on August 25 at AngelList in San Francisco for an evening focused on the business and physical infrastructure behind the AI data center race.
The evening will feature two separate fireside chats with leaders building the infrastructure behind AI, followed by startup demos, dinner, drinks, and curated networking.
Dinner and drinks included.
Featured Fireside Chats
🎙️ Moderator | To Be Announced
⚡ Speaker | Yuval Bachar
Founder & CEO, ECL
Yuval is building next-generation AI data center infrastructure at massive scale. ECL is developing a 35 MW AI campus in Santa Clara and an announced 1 GW, $8B AI infrastructure campus in Texas, while expanding alternative power capacity through hydrogen and microgrid technologies.
Fireside focus: Power, scale, and what it takes to build the next generation of AI factories.
🏗️ Speaker | Navneet Aron
Founder & CEO, LIVIO Building Systems
Navneet is focused on dramatically reducing how long and how much it takes to deploy AI infrastructure. LIVIO is targeting 1 MW deployments in as little as 99 days at roughly $4–5M per MW, compared with much longer and more expensive conventional builds.
Fireside focus: How modular construction and new deployment models can build data centers at AI speed.
Each speaker will join us for a separate fireside conversation, diving into two of the biggest constraints facing AI infrastructure today: power and deployment speed.
Startup Demos
Selected startup demos will be announced soon.
Startups building in AI infrastructure, data centers, GPU cloud, neoclouds, power systems, energy infrastructure, cooling, deployment software, site selection, procurement, monitoring, utilization, construction automation, compute marketplaces, or data center operations are invited to apply.
What to Expect
• Two separate in-depth fireside chats with AI data center leaders
• Startup demo tables from emerging infrastructure companies
• Founders, investors, operators, engineers, and data center builders
• Dinner and drinks
• Curated networking across AI compute, power, cooling, construction, energy, infrastructure, and capital
Schedule
6:00 PM — Appetizers, Drinks, & Demos
7:00 PM — Fireside Chats + Q&A
7:45 PM — Dinner, Networking & Demos
9:00 PM — Event Concludes
Registration & Attendance
This event is open to founders, investors, operators, infrastructure leaders, engineers, data center builders, energy leaders, and technical executives working across AI infrastructure, compute, power, cooling, data centers, cloud infrastructure, and capital markets.
Designed for people building, funding, or scaling the physical infrastructure behind the AI economy, from compute capacity and data center development to power, energy, deployment, and operations.
Presented by SFPlayground
SFPlayground brings together founders, investors, operators, and builders through high-signal events, curated introductions, and startup-focused programming from San Francisco to Silicon Valley.