Dear valued Clients and Partners,

Summer has flown by and we hope yours was wonderful!

As we head into fall, we are excited to share a few key updates and highlights from a busy third quarter.

In This Issue…

• Key Industry Trends
• Building Community Engagement and Trust
• NYI Facility Updates
• Announcement: NYI Completes 2026 SOC 1, SOC 2, and HIPAA Examinations
• 60 Hudson Street Team News
• Chicago Update
• The Nomad Futurist Fellowship
• Connect with Us

Key Industry Trends

While last year focused on the digital infrastructure opportunities created by the AI revolution, this year’s focus has been on a range of large-scale datacenter development challenges and considerations:

• Power grid and resource constraints, supply chain bottlenecks, labor shortages, and community concerns.
• A community pushback issue which has risen to the top of conference and boardroom discussions.
• A workload shift from AI modeling which requires gigawatt scale remote campuses to AI inferencing (model application) which requires less power and a growing reliance on smaller urban and suburban multi-tenant data center facilities.

NYI COO Phillip Koblence was invited to speak on these critical topics at a number of industry events in Q3 2026 including:

• Data Center Frontier Trends Summit (Reston, VA)
• Bisnow Data Center Capital Markets Summit (New York, NY)
• Data Centre West (Calgary, Canada)
• Bisnow DICE Midwest (Chicago, IL)
• YOTTA 2026 (Las Vegas, NV)

Building Community Engagement and Trust

Phillip Koblence was honored to participate in the closing keynote session of the Data Center Frontier Trends Summit: Earning the Social License: Stewardship, Sustainability and the Future of Data Center Growth.

Massive AI-driven digital infrastructure projects are raising community concerns, leading to restrictive legislation and moratoriums. The discussion focused on what has become a key industry challenge: the need for datacenter developers to build community engagement and trust. This requires building a common frame of reference through datacenter education and standards development.

As the newly appointed Board Chair of the OIX Association, Phillip is helping define a standardized framework to enable local communities to objectively evaluate proposed datacenter projects.

➡️ Learn about the OIX Digital Infrastructure Framework

Speakers gather after the closing keynote.
From left to right: Stan Blackwell, Phillip Koblence, Buddy Rizer (moderator), Misty Allen, Tara Risser and Nabeel Mahmood

NYI FACILITY UPDATES

ANNOUNCEMENT: NYI Completes 2026 SOC 1, SOC 2, and HIPAA Examinations

As part of our ongoing commitment to protecting client infrastructure and data, NYI is pleased to announce the completion of our 2026 independent SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, and HIPAA Security Rule examinations, performed by Linford & Company LLP, an independent CPA firm.

The examinations cover NYI’s data center services at its NY2 (New York, NY) and CH1 (Oak Brook, IL) facilities for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.

Clients and prospects can request copies of the reports from their NYI account representative.

SOC reports are governed by standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
NYI’s SOC 2 report covers the Security and Availability Trust Services Criteria. Areas covered include physical access to the data centers, logical access, 24×7 monitoring, change management, risk management, and availability safeguards such as environmental protections, backup, and disaster recovery.

60 HUDSON STREET TEAM NEWS

Congratulations Juan!

Juan Ng was promoted in July to Lead Data Center Operations Engineer to reflect his expanded role. Juan leads our New York team of data center engineers and technicians, develops operational procedures and best practices, plans data center expansions, migrations and deployments. He oversees critical systems including power and cooling, fire suppression and physical security and manages vendors and suppliers.

New Team Member: The Operations team welcomed a new team member Abdullah Yahia as a data center engineer. Abudullah serves on the second shift (3-11PM)

➡️ Learn more about NYI @ 60 Hudson Street

CHICAGO UPDATES

BISNOW DICE MIDWEST CONFERENCE

Phillip Koblence returned recently from a whirlwind trip to Chicago where he spoke on the opening panel of Bisnow DICE Midwest: The Business of Building Data Centers: The Conversations Happening in the Boardroom.” The discussion set the stage for a conference focused on tackling the challenges the industry faces due to the explosive growth in AI workloads.

A packed audience at Bisnow DICE Midwest in Chicago

Phillip Koblence speaks on the Bisnow DICE Midwest opening panel, alongside f(rom left to right): Shawn Ronda (moderator), Bill Winsininski, Meghan Reckling, and Jason Carolan

NYI Chicago Update

Phillip also enjoyed spending time with the NYI Chicago team in Oak Brook. Exciting times ahead! Our highly connected facility is drawing the attention of cutting edge technology providers interested in supporting AI inferencing related workloads.

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The NYI Chicago data center in Oak Brook, IL

THE NOMAD FUTURIST FELLOWSHIP

In early Q3, the Nomad Futurist Foundation announced the official launch of the Nomad Futurist Fellowship, a new initiative designed to connect students and emerging professionals with the people, knowledge, and opportunities needed to build meaningful careers across the digital infrastructure industry.

The Fellowship provides aspiring professionals with direct access to mentorship from industry leaders, networking opportunities, career guidance, educational resources, volunteer experiences, and exclusive engagement with the Foundation’s global community.

NOMAD FUTURIST FELLOW PRESENTS RESEARCH AT OXFORD
Nomad Futurist recently sponsored Nomad Futurist Fellow Prathyaj Mantha’s trip to England, enabling him to present his data center research “Stakeholder Perspectives and Communication Failures on Data Center Development,” at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford!

➡️ Learn more about the Nomad Futurist Foundation

University of Oxford in England

Connect with us!

We look forward to supporting your evolving infrastructure, network, and interconnection needs.

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