The Infrastructure of Intelligence
1 May 2026
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We are in the middle of the largest infrastructure buildout of our lifetimes, and most people still think we're talking about real estate.
We're not.
The asset class the industry used to call a "data center" — the windowless shell, valued per square foot, tucked along a fiber route — is gone. What's replacing it is energy infrastructure that happens to have a building on top of it.
That pivot, from real estate to energy, is the single most important thing site selectors, economic developers, and community leaders need to internalize right now. Because the next economic map isn't going to be drawn in square feet. It's going to be drawn in megawatts.
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