DCF Editor in Chief Matt Vincent opens the Summit with a fast calibration of where the industry really is in 2026: from last year’s rapid expansion and “AI-ready” positioning to today’s hard reality of power, capital, labor, and community constraints converging at once. Rather than a traditional keynote, this session immediately turns to the room. Members of the Data Center Frontier Editorial Advisory Board will stand and deliver rapid-fire, two-to-three-minute perspectives from where they sit in the ecosystem—operators, developers, capital, grid, and community—to answer one central question: What has actually changed in the last year when it comes to building and delivering data center infrastructure, and where is execution breaking down or accelerating?