BRG Releases Summer 2025 Issue of ThinkSet Magazine
BRG is excited to announce the release of the latest issue of its digital publication ThinkSet magazine. The Summer 2025 issue focuses on infrastructure and how energy, data, and industry shape the modern world.
The definition of infrastructure is changing—and it is recreating the future of business in the process. The new issue of ThinkSet goes wide and in-depth to help stakeholders across industries prepare for what is to come.
At the core of this ongoing shift is artificial intelligence (AI). On the one hand, the AI-driven need for new data centers is playing an outsized role in the unprecedented demand for energy. That surge—coupled with new policies, low oil prices, grid reliability issues, and economic headwinds—is creating the perfect storm for a domestic energy supply/infrastructure crunch, write Christopher Goncalves and John Tunstall. Potential implications include a spike in business failures, more legal disputes, and energy price blowouts.
Another critical area where those disputes may occur: US solar field construction. Caleb Sturm and Hannah Jackson survey factors causing delays and disagreements and provide best practices for utilities and contractors to mitigate these risks proactively. Meanwhile, Magdalena Kuyterink looks on the brighter side, delving into manganese zinc, an emerging alternative to the lithium-ion batteries used in most energy storage systems.
But AI isn’t all about energy. Healthcare technology expert James McHugh discusses the importance of building out automation and AI infrastructure at hospitals and health systems. He diagnoses an unexpected root cause for why these efforts fail—a lack of engagement from IT departments—and how organizations can address it.
On the policy side, Brent Carlson and Michael Huneke, an attorney at Hughes Hubbard & Reid, unpack new US export controls aimed at preventing diversion of AI technologies to China and other countries. Amid the battle for global AI dominance, these policies pave the way for new opportunities for US technology leaders—as well as potentially costly liabilities.
Geopolitical tensions impact other aspects of infrastructure. Simon Schropp argues that the White House’s efforts to bring back US manufacturing may not be possible—or even desirable—given a range of obstacles. Meanwhile, Steven Klemencic follows up his ThinkSet Q&A with an update on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) and the Trump administration’s recent policy memo allowing sovereign wealth funds to invest in US infrastructure.
Taken together, these articles paint a comprehensive picture of a new global business landscape—spanning policy, energy, technology, and geopolitics—where infrastructure is truly everywhere.
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