Dave Buckner
Vice President of Design & Engineering Sabey Datacenters
Dave Buckner is Vice President of Engineering and Development at Sabey Data Centers, where he leads facility design, construction, commissioning, and engineering standards across Sabey’s data center portfolio. With over 17 years at Sabey, he brings deep owner-side experience in program management, commissioning oversight, procurement, and standards development, ensuring consistent delivery, operational readiness, and performance across large-scale, mission-critical facilities.
Seminars
- Applying adiabatic and advanced water treatment technologies to lower operational water use
- Integrating alternative water sourcing and reuse strategies into cooling design to reduce environmental impact and maintain operational viability where municipal supply is constrained
- Selecting site-specific cooling approaches based on climate and regulatory pressure to enable viable deployment without overcommitting to a single solution
EWhat does the AI revolution mean for the physical footprint of data centers? Is the era of air cooling officially over? Will data centers be powered by nuclear in the near-future? Will the rise of edge decentralize the cloud as we know it? Where will we be in 5 years?
Join this Q&A panel with leading design experts and get your burning questions answered.
- Engaging architects, engineers, contractors, and key end users earlier in the project lifecycle to surface constraints sooner and reduce downstream coordination risk
- Evaluating design-build and integrated delivery models to accelerate decision-making and improve accountability between design and construction teams
- Structuring contracts, incentives, and risk allocation to support early collaboration and reduce cost and schedule exposure as scope evolves
