
Jon Tellekamp
Chief Underwriting Officer, Construction and Energy at AXA XL, specializing in construction and energy insurance risk.
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Sep 3, 2026
The Hidden Insurance Risks Behind the Data Center Boom
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So I was curious to start off how significant the current data center construction boom is for insurers and what sort of makes this different from other periods of commercial construction?

Jon TellekampGUEST
Yeah, I mean, this has certainly taken over the market from a conversation perspective, and it's something that we're working on day in, day out.

Jon TellekampGUEST
The team has had submissions for probably the last year and a half, but it definitely continues to ramp up and be the number one opportunity that's either coming in or that we see in the market.

Jon TellekampGUEST
So to your question of what's the current boom and how is this different and what we're seeing is it's different in a few different ways.

Jon TellekampGUEST
It's different that the amount of dollars being spent on these facilities is just astronomical.

Jon TellekampGUEST
I mean, we're talking tens of billions of dollars in certain sites that was just unheard of previously, where, you know, if you go back five, ten years, data centers were being built, but the cost of those data centers were in the $300 million range.
