As a law firm, Pillsbury’s experience with data centers dates to the dot-com era, when I advised on buildouts in Silicon Valley and New York City and Jamie Bobotek advised on centers of America On-Line (then spelled out!) and others in Northern Virginia. We counseled the industry as proprietary centers were supplemented, and in some cases supplanted, by physical and cloud-based systems of larger dedicated enterprises. The data center landscape is now international in scope and diverse in speciation, with edge, modular, enterprise and hyperscale facilities each playing important yet distinctive roles. There is no single locus of data center expertise in legal practice, just as there is no single locus of capabilities and users in the business environment. Pillsbury’s Data Centers team accordingly deploys a one-stop, hub-and-spoke model that reflects the complex ecosystem in which these localized points of computation sit.
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