Right-of-Way Revolution to Turn Highways and Railroads into Energy and Broadband Arteries

The nation’s highways and railroads – long reserved for moving people and freight – are drawing fresh attention as potential corridors for the power lines, fiber-optic cables and water pipelines needed by a 21st-century economy. Surging demand from advanced manufacturing, data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) is colliding with a slow and difficult siting process for new infrastructure, while existing transportation rights-of-way (ROWs) offer long, linear routes that in many places are…
By: Holland & Knight LLP