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Data center economics

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Investors evaluate data centers against comparable project-finance returns.

Kedrosky says external capital providers generally evaluate data center projects using market-based returns comparable with commercial real estate and other project-finance opportunities rather than requiring revenues proportional to an enormous theoretical AI market.

Paul Kedrosky Data center economics Source at 6:43

Data centers require continuing capital unlike conventional real estate.

Kedrosky argues that the real-estate analogy breaks down because data centers require recurring hardware, cooling, and infrastructure investment, creating a duration mismatch and continually diluting returns.

Paul Kedrosky Data center economics Source at 10:37

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