Pranav Hotkar
New York, United States - February 26, 2026 - Willis, a business of WTW (NASDAQ: WTW), has announced the launch of its Global Digital Infrastructure Group, a new cross-functional team designed to address the full spectrum of risks facing data center owners, operators, contractors, and hyperscalers worldwide. The initiative builds on Willis’s recently introduced data center risk management framework and responds to the growing complexity and scale of global digital infrastructure investments.
Led by Alastair Swift, Head of Willis Global Specialties, the group brings together specialists across a broad range of disciplines and geographies, including construction, energy, cybersecurity, real estate, supply chain, data analytics, risk engineering, and financial as well as emerging risks. The aim is to provide holistic advisory services and tailored risk transfer solutions that span the entire digital infrastructure lifecycle.
“We are bringing specialist expertise together to help clients stay ahead of the sector’s developments and risk trends,” Swift said in the company announcement. “For data centers, this means tailored, client-first solutions that protect physical assets, strengthen financial resilience, and support reliable operations at scale.”
Willis said that as demand for digital infrastructure accelerates, driven by cloud adoption, artificial intelligence, and enterprise digital transformation, the nature of risk facing data center projects has evolved. Traditional insurance models, which often focus on individual lines of coverage, may not fully capture the interconnected exposures tied to construction timelines, power resilience, cyber threats, climate events, natural catastrophes, and global supply chain disruptions.
The Global Digital Infrastructure Group is tasked with helping clients mitigate these challenges by strengthening long-term competitiveness and resilience, reducing operational disruption, optimizing balance sheet protection, and supporting sustainable growth. The team’s services will also focus on safeguarding corporate reputation and enabling smoother business transformation as organizations navigate market and regulatory changes.
Industry observers say the launch reflects a broader shift among major brokers and risk advisors toward specialized infrastructure capabilities, as data center developments become larger, more capital-intensive, and strategically critical. By assembling multidisciplinary expertise under one umbrella, Willis aims to provide end-to-end risk insight and advisory capacity that matches the pace of digital infrastructure expansion.
With a global network spanning more than 140 countries, Willis said its new group will combine local market knowledge with multinational placement expertise to support the increasingly international footprint of digital infrastructure projects, reinforcing client confidence and operational continuity in an era of rapid growth and technological change.
