Digital Infrastructure
Strategic advisory, financial consulting and compliance solutions to navigate the infrastructure reorientation powering the digital and AI economy.
Digital Infrastructure
Navigate complexity. Maximize value.
As cloud computing and artificial intelligence reshape industries, organizations are either navigating disruption or building the digital infrastructure that enables it. Operators are attempting to rapidly deploy data centers, utility and fiber infrastructure, and semiconductors across a complex ecosystem that demands a strategic advisor versed in real estate, construction, energy, technology, communications, and finance.
We partner with you to execute your strategies, whether that means improving financial performance, pursuing new ventures and investments, or navigating complex regulatory, cybersecurity, global trade, incentive and financial concerns.
Industry depth and comprehensive solutions
Digital infrastructure operators, investors, or impacted industries and communities, need solutions that link overlapping elements. Whether in the planning, developing or operating stage, our goal is to partner with you each step of the way.
Multi-faceted experience in one firm
Digital infrastructure companies face increasing complexity as they balance growth, investment, operations, compliance, and technology transformation across multiple industries. We help simplify these challenges by providing integrated strategic, financial, and compliance guidance that connects expertise across real estate, construction, energy, technology, communications, and private equity, helping organizations manage risk, accelerate growth, and achieve long-term success.
Clarify strategy and navigate headwinds
The rapidly shifting digital infrastructure landscape is making it difficult for companies to react in the short term while continuing to stay on pace to meet long-term objectives. This includes construction cost containment, changing regulations, global supply chains, cybersecurity, and trade issues.
Our management consulting specialists can help you clearly define business ideation, develop strategies, and set tactical plans for seamless execution. Additionally, our solutions in development advisory, construction risk management, cyber resiliency and global trade management were built to support you in the various challenges you may face along the way.
Navigate power assessments and purchase agreements
Digital infrastructure, specifically data centers, are among the largest electricity consumers in modern economies. Finding high-quality, reliable power capacity often requires robust assessment and evaluation; our team can help. When it is not possible to get the power needed from the grid, we can help evaluate and design on-site power generation to meet the project’s needs or balance what the grid can provide.
Identifying and negotiating power purchase agreements is also key as digital projects often depend on a wide range of complex contracts and agreements. Our contract compliance services team has extensive experience with these essential instruments and are here to provide valuable insights and technical support.
Demonstrate community value
Large data and digital centers significantly impact nearby communities making site selection, confronting local concerns, negotiations, and community buy-in critical. Accelerate the process with a detailed economic impact analysis that shows state and local officials how your project can increase tax revenue, generate jobs, provide powering solutions, and deliver other benefits in a community-centric way. Explore how are Public Sector Advisory team can support you.
Maximize incentives and tax equity
Digital infrastructure projects require significant capital making leverage of state and federal incentives crucial. Our incentives advisory, state and local tax, and tax structuring solutions offer ways to offset some of these capital demands with insights from professionals specializing in tax credits and incentives, and other federal, state, and local regulatory changes that can affect your bottom line.
Drive transaction success
Restructuring, spin-offs, mergers or acquisitions are prevalent in this digital age - from due diligence to valuations and merger management, achieve transaction success at every stage of the deal cycle with our transaction, restructuring and technical accounting services.
Drive success with end-to-end support
No matter where you stand in the digital infrastructure environment, our professionals can help align outcomes with goals while also positioning you for continued success.
- Business advisory and management consulting
- Infrastructure and equipment valuation and property tax consulting
- Power capacity and site assessments
- Tax credit and incentive optimization and capital formation
- Economic impact analysis, assessment and structuring
- Power purchase agreement assessment and negotiation
- Construction and operational consulting services
- Fiber and broadband pricing
- Utility rate studies and financing analysis
- Tax structuring and modeling
- Cyber consulting and compliance
- Managed services, fund administration and financial reporting
- Customer level retention and profitability analysis
- Pricing and capacity commitments, working capital and cost structure analysis
- Transaction support and diligence
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2026 US Investment outcomes monitor
As AI adoption accelerates, competitive advantage is increasingly tied to the infrastructure that powers it—from data centers and semiconductors to power availability and networking. Explore the trends reshaping private capital markets in our 2026 U.S. Investment outcomes monitor.
Digital infrastructure solutions – delivered through one powerful firm
Breadth and depth across the digital infrastructure ecosystem is our value proposition to support you – uniting industry expertise with accounting, tax, finance, and consulting capabilities.
We work with investors, operators, suppliers, and communities focused on, or impacted by, digital infrastructure at critical inflection points – supporting their success.
Navigate complexity, unlock opportunity, and move your strategy forward with confidence. Connect with our team to explore how we can help you accelerate outcomes, manage risk, and maximize long-term value across your digital infrastructure investments or business landscape.
Featured insights
Data center impact on local communities: Balancing growth infrastructure and community outcomes
The expansion of data centers has accelerated sharply since 2023, driven by cloud services and artificial intelligence workloads. As this growth continues, understanding the impact data centers have on local communities has become a critical issue for policymakers, utilities and residents.
Generative AI and the next phase of digital transformation in telecommunications and broadband
Digital transformation helps organizations boost efficiency, customer experience, agility, and becomes vital for telecom and broadband growth and resilience.
Artificial Intelligence and the future of construction finance
Explore how Artificial Intelligence in construction is transforming finance through automation, risk reduction and strategic decision-making.
Software and technology M&A update: H2 2025
Baker Tilly’s H2 2025 software and technology M&A update highlights key market trends, SaaS deal activity and insights shaping digital transformation and AI growth.
The digital infrastructure environment is evolving rapidly and requires the right guidance, industry experience, and customized solutions. Companies succeed by partnering with advisors who understand the challenges, opportunities, and pace of change shaping the industry.Clay Sturgis, Principal
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