<p>Suhail Y Tayeb, director of the <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/about/academic-divisions-and-departments/schack-institute-of-real-estate/center-for-sustainable-built-environment.html">Center for the Sustainable Built Environment</a> at the NYU SPS <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/about/academic-divisions-and-departments/schack-institute-of-real-estate.html">Schack Institute of Real Estate</a>, recently appeared on the<i> Sustainability Street</i> podcast to discuss how risk management strategy is critical to responsible development as data centers continue to pop up around the country and the globe.</p> <p>Such projects have captured headlines, receiving backlash from communities and environmentalists over their inordinate consumption of land, power, and water. Tayeb posits that the reality is not so cut-and-dried, noting that well-planned digital infrastructure projects have gotten lumped in with poorly sited and poorly communicated ones.</p> <p>“Talking to people, letting them know what’s going to happen, what are the effects, what are the impacts,” Tayeb shares. “That’s what determines whether these projects are responsible or disruptive.”</p> <p><span class="p-body">Check out Tayeb’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commercialsearch.com/news/sustainability-street-data-centers-reach-at-a-crossroads/">full interview</a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<i>Sustainability Street</i>&nbsp;host Therese Fitzgerald for further insights. Tayeb, a clinical assistant professor at the NYU SPS Schack Institute of Real Estate, is also a lead instructor for the new&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/explore/degrees-and-programs/ms-in-sustainability-and-global-energy-practice.html">MS in Sustainability &amp; Global Practice</a>, a Center for Global Affairs and Schack Institute cross-program and cross-industry degree.</span></p> <p>On the podcast, Tayeb discusses how this new interdisciplinary master’s program will help students better understand and think about building infrastructure as a complete system rather than isolated silos.</p>