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Podcast: The Real Estate Espresso Podcast
Episode: Why Would A Data Center Come To Your Neighborhood?
Description: On today’s show we are looking at what might be the economic drivers for the construction of new data centres.
Data centres are a very capital intensive business. They consume a lot of land, electricity, water, and of course the hardware software and climate control equipment. They burden the local electric utility with a lot of demand and they don’t contribute very much to a city’s vibrancy. Nobody goes on a Sunday afternoon drive to look at the data center.
Apart from the fact that you have access to artifi...