The industry's own research.
344 reports
showing 1–60 of 344

Analysis of how AI talent concentrations and office demand dynamics are reshaping data center requirements and real estate absorption patterns.

Is Global Reference Design the answer to support this standardization?

Advanced power management strategies to help data centers improve resilience, efficiency and reliability as demand continues to grow

Analysis of Texas's emerging position as a major hub for AI-focused data center development and construction.

Mass timber sees growth as Big Tech and Congress expand use, driven by eco-friendly benefits and stable prices.
A podcast discussion examining capital allocation trends across residential, life sciences, and data-driven real estate investment strategies.

AXI IMMO publishes the second edition of its research on the Polish data center market, examining sector trends and investment activity.

Analysis of how the 2026 UK business rates revaluation affects data centre valuations and operating costs.

Explores the tension between data center development demands and community/environmental protection concerns.


De snelle groei van AI-infrastructuur zorgt in de Verenigde Staten voor een toenemende vraag naar industrieel vastgoed buiten de datacenters zelf. Dat blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek van Cushman & Wakefield naar zes grote Amerikaanse datacentermarkten.

AI is grabbing the headlines, but investors still have their eye firmly on the cloud

Analysis of the intersection between energy infrastructure and digital real estate sectors and their market dynamics.

Walker & Dunlop explores strategic investment and financing opportunities within the data center sector as digital infrastructure demand accelerates.

Leading data center owners and operators miss carbon targets as AI-driven growth spikes emissions.

Tritax Big Box REIT reports interim results with near doubling of secured power capacity to 507MW and increased guidance to grow adjusted EPS by 65% by 2030/31.

Absorption hits record 25GW in 1H 2026

CBRE survey revealing investor preferences across strategies, sectors, and markets in the Asia-Pacific region.

AI data centers are being reassessed as strategic business assets, with GPU utilization, power and cooling efficiency now key measures of competitiveness.

North America data center demand reached an all-time high in the first half of 2026, with 25 gigawatts of absorption, double the level from a year ago and five times that of two years prior. JLL’s North America Data Center Report – Midyear 2026 says that although structural demand continues to accelerate,…

Morgan Stanley Investment Management examines structural shifts in infrastructure megatrends, including a reorganization of data center compute from centralized to distributed multi-layered networks driven by inference and latency-sensitive workloads.

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners discusses how rapid AI acceleration is reshaping digital infrastructure architecture and its implications for data center deployment.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management analyzes how water scarcity is emerging as a critical constraint on industrial expansion, permitting, and capital returns across mines, semiconductor plants, and data centers in water-stressed regions.

CREDA Research Foundation report examining best practices in sustainable data center development through interviews with industry owners, operators, investors, developers, and designers.

Explore a structured approach to powering AI data centers that balances speed, reliability and long-term decarbonization

Institutional investors are increasingly allocating to alternative real estate sectors including data centres, life sciences, cold storage and manufactured housing for portfolio differentiation.
Cushman & Wakefield reports on the scale and trajectory of data center capacity expansion across Asia-Pacific markets.

CREDA research publication outlining industry best practices and guidance for data center development and project delivery.

Oxford Economics webinar examining Australia's expanding data centre sector and investment dynamics.

Three innovations central to next phase of DCI and scale-across networking
Cushman & Wakefield reports on India's capital markets activity in Q2 2026, highlighting office sector leadership and growing data centre investment momentum.


Cushman & Wakefield regional update on data center market conditions, supply, demand and investment activity across Asia-Pacific in the first half of 2026.

U.S.-focused real estate investment trusts delivered the strongest returns for investors over the past decade, with data-center REITs emerging as the standout performer. Research by George Mason University finance professor Derek Horstmeyer, published by the Wall Street Journal, found that U.S.-focused REITs…


Texas energy officials address concerns over rising costs due to rapid data center development. The post New Grid Rules on Texas Data Center Growth appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .

Community and social impact management is not simply a risk to be mitigated, but an opportunity to build the durable trust and maturity the sector will need

With 4% vacancy rate, sector continues accelerated growth, study indicates.

FLAPD markets reach a live capacity of 3.8GW in 1H 2026

The AI boom has developers casting lines for hyperscale data center sites across the country. But in Florida, many counties aren’t biting. A slew of proposals have been met with moratoriums, zoning battles and community opposition, leaving several developments dead in the water. While grassroots organizations and…

AI infrastructure is a “key pillar of demand”

Unifying strategy and technology for complete data center resilience

Silicon Valley’s industrial market has split into two economies — one defined by artificial intelligence, data centers and an insatiable appetite for power, the other by older, irreplaceable Class B and C buildings that are steadily vanishing — leaving the region tight, low on vacancy and firmly in landlords’…

To support rapid AI growth

Data center growth is outstripping the regulations designed to control it. Lawmakers are fighting

How prefabricated modular data centers drive speed, efficiency, and decarbonization

This is a viewpoint-commentary published by EdgeProp Malaysia in August 2026 addressing Malaysia's long-term property outlook, with focus on the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) and data centres as supporting factors. The item reflects JLL's perspective on these sectors' roles in Malaysia's property market development.

Combined capital spending by the world's nine largest cloud service providers is projected to jump about 90% this year to $886.7 billion, driven by AI data center expansion, per TrendForce.

Corporate guidance for capital expenditures keeps getting ratcheted higher and involves massive sums, largely focused on AI infrastructure.

The argument for greater use of performance metrics

Growth is broadening, not relocating
Image Data center REITs own and manage highly specialized facilities that house the critical IT infrastructure that powers today’s economy.

The region has a large industrial market and available power, but high land prices and community pushback have kept data center development relatively muted.

Asia Pacific’s data centre development pipeline has reached 25.5 gigawatts, exceeding the region’s 16.1GW of operational capacity as developers race to keep pace with demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing, according to Savills. The pipeline includes 3.6GW under construction... Read More>> The post…

As AI data centers drive electricity demand to double by 2030, the key question shifts from how to supply power to who pays for it—companies, utilities, governments, or consumers.

Analysis of Singapore's data center expansion constraints and competitive positioning relative to emerging regional hubs in Southeast Asia.

Data centers at the heart of the action

Artificial intelligence and cloud computing continue to drive demand for data centers. A new Cushman & Wakefield report said that those facilities offer more than support for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. In From Megawatts to Multipliers: The Data Center Effect on Industrial Demand, Jobs and Local…

Report examining operational and community impacts of data center development in California as artificial intelligence infrastructure demand drives energy consumption concerns.

As AI increases energy demand, data centers are moving to higher voltage systems, creating new opportunities for electricity and component providers.