The AI Gold Rush Is Real: Carson Jones on Next Level CRE with Matt Faircloth
This one is a little different: Carson is the guest. He sat down with Matt Faircloth of The DeRosa Group on Next Level CRE to talk about the AI gold rush. Everyone is watching the chips and the hyperscalers. The real constraint is power and dirt.
AI is creating a land rush in commercial real estate, and most investors are looking in the wrong place. The headlines are about GPUs and trillion-dollar capex budgets, but every one of those dollars eventually has to land on a physical site with enough electricity to run it. That is where the opportunity is for people who actually understand land, entitlements, and utilities.
We covered:
- How ordinary operators can actually get into the data center game without a billion-dollar balance sheet
- What makes a site valuable (and what makes one worthless)
- Why power capacity matters more than almost anything else
If you're a broker or investor, there is a seat at this table. It comes down to knowing where the megawatts are before everyone else does.
Thanks for having me on, Matt. Great conversation.
Go deeper: the Carson's Corner guide to data center real estate covers the site, power, and underwriting fundamentals from this conversation. For data center site evaluations, email Carson.
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