IUA Circular 054/26
The Influencers Podcast:
Powering the AI Economy with Andi Brocks, AWS
Date: 3 June 2026
Interest Groups: IUA member contacts, insert other interest groups
Subject: A new episode in the podcast series produced by the IUA and Hogan Lovells
IUA Contact: Tom Hughes, Director of Underwriting ( 44 (0)78 2533 4264)
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“S&P Global projects $10 billion in new data centre insurance premiums in 2026 alone, that's roughly twice the entire global aviation insurance market. These are complex, high-value assets with novel risk profiles. The insurers who develop genuine expertise in understanding data centre risk… will capture disproportionate value.”
The Data Centre Boom, Resilience and the Risk Frontier
The Influencers, is a podcast series offering insightful conversations with leaders from business, academia and regulating authorities about all aspects of digital transformation and law. In the fourth episode of the series, the IUA’s Tom Hughes and Hogan Lovells’ Karishma Paroha welcomed Andi Brocks from Amazon Web Services
During the discussion, Andi explores how data centres might hold the key to unlock the next generation of underwriting capabilities.sk…
This episode underlines that insurers cannot treat data centres as a conventional property risk. Those that build technical expertise, improve modelling, and engage early in the project lifecycle will be better placed to support clients and capture the opportunity.
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