Amid this decade`s boom in data center development, conversions of existing buildings have become more rare than they were previously. But now, an emerging shift in demand for artificial intelligence computing may trigger more adaptive reuse projects.
With other CRE sectors suffering from higher vacancy, the idea of converting underperforming warehouses, offices and retail properties into data centers has been frequently floated but rarely executed.
Such adaptive reuse projects may sound intuitive, but a consensus emerged across the data center sector over the past half-decade that, with few exceptions, demolishing an existing structure and building from scratch is faster, cheaper and easier than attempting a retrofit...
Such adaptive reuse projects may sound intuitive, but a consensus emerged across the data center sector over the past half-decade that, with few exceptions, demolishing an existing structure and building from scratch is faster, cheaper and easier than attempting a retrofit...
RSK: You will be seeing more and more of this. It all makes sense for the delivery of last mile data tech and AI. That office building next to you may be housing a data center soon.
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