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Meeting Topic & Overview:
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High-Density Havoc: Managing Property and BI Risks in AI Data Centers
This session explores the rapid evolution of data centers into advanced AI processing centers and the critical role they play in supporting today’s accelerating demand for artificial intelligence. Drawing on extensive experience in AI-related risk and infrastructure, the discussion examines how modern facilities differ fundamentally from traditional data centers—shifting from passive data storage to high‑intensity, always‑on processing environments. The presentation highlights key considerations such as power and energy supply, battery systems, engineering resilience, and the growing constraints around capacity as AI adoption expands nationwide.
The conversation also addresses the broader business and risk implications of AI infrastructure, including business interruption and contingent business interruption exposures that can ripple far beyond the data center itself. With real‑world observations from markets experiencing rapid data center growth, the session touches on the operational, economic, and community challenges tied to these facilities—from infrastructure strain and power demands to the cascading impact of outages on non‑AI businesses. Designed as a focused, high‑level discussion, this engagement provides insight into why AI‑driven processing centers represent a new frontier for risk, resilience, and strategic planning.
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Speakers:
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Sharon Wolfe, CPA, Sigma7 Complex Claims & Valuations
Sharon Wolfe, CPA is the Managing Director at S7 Complex Claims & Valuations, a global forensic accounting firm, where she oversees the international accounting practice. Based in the Connecticut office, she specializes in forensic accounting for complex business interruption risk, including reported values, exposures, and claims, primarily for multinational corporate policyholders. With more than 35 years of experience in forensic accounting and insurance claims and disputes, Ms. Wolfe has quantified losses related to time element, property, environmental, liability, mass tort, cyber, recall, and representations and warranties matters. Her experience spans a broad range of industries, including transportation, pulp and paper, heavy manufacturing, public utilities, petrochemical, oil and gas, pipeline, midstream, mining, telecommunications, financial services, hospitality, aerospace, wholesale, distribution, retail, healthcare, and technology. She has provided investigative accounting services for litigation and ADR matters throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, and is a frequent speaker to the insurance and legal community on business interruption and property claims.
Michael Levine, Esq. Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Mike is a Legal 500 and Chambers USA-ranked lawyer with more than 25 years of experience advising policyholders about their insurance programs and litigating disputed insurance claims. Mike speaks frequently on emerging insurance coverage issues, including AI, property damage, business interruption, general and excess liability, and cyber, media and other technology-related insurance coverages. Mike has led plenary and panel discussions about artificial intelligence and insurance for the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, UConn. School of Law, Practising Law Institute, and the American College of Coverage Counsel, of which Mike is a fellow. Mike also has been widely published on artificial intelligence among many other subjects.
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