Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure
As the digital economy accelerates, data centers, fiber networks, and digital infrastructure have become indispensable to everything from artificial intelligence and cloud services to 5G deployment and edge computing. Nowhere is this transformation advancing more rapidly than in Florida, a fast-growing nexus of population growth, technology investment, and energy innovation. Whether commercializing hardware, software and infrastructure, or analyzing zoning, land use and environmental issues for digital infrastructure assets, clients rely on our team to navigate this complex and fast-moving environment with precision, speed, and strategic foresight.
Bilzin Sumberg’s Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure Group provides full-spectrum legal counsel to developers, investors, telecoms, and digital infrastructure companies across the entire asset lifecycle. Our cross-disciplinary team offers deep industry insight backed by top-tier legal capabilities in real estate, corporate, land development and government relations, construction, energy, tax, environmental, technology and telecommunications, regulatory, and litigation. From site acquisition and permitting to M&A, risk management, and post-operational strategy, we position clients to seize opportunities, overcome legal and business hurdles, and future-proof their infrastructure in a rapidly evolving market.
Our core capabilities span the full digital infrastructure ecosystem. We advise on real estate acquisition, zoning, entitlements, and permitting, with particular expertise in navigating Florida’s complex development landscape. We support clients through construction and delivery phases, negotiating EPC contracts, resolving disputes, and ensuring continuity under challenging conditions. Our attorneys negotiate fiber and telecom usage, license and network agreements, handle complex commercial transactions, including hosting, co-location and licensing, and advise on data security, energy procurement, environmental permitting, tax-efficient structuring, and joint ventures. Our seasoned litigators defend entitlements, resolve permitting challenges, and manage construction and contract disputes, delivering agile, outcome-driven representation when stakes are high. As infrastructure converges with intelligence, we provide the legal clarity and executional strength clients need to lead in the age of AI, edge computing, and high-performance connectivity, across Florida and beyond.
