Scale is the story. “The size, scale, complexity and length of these buildouts is unprecedented,” Williams said, with hyperscale campuses – the largest data centers – now routinely valued at US$30 billion to US$40 billion each. He said that in land-scarce markets such as Japan, developers are weighing 52-story towers to stack servers vertically rather than building the massive complexes favored in the United States. For brokers, this means staggering asset values, multi-year construction programs and significant dependencies on semiconductors and raw materials, all compressed into single insured sites.
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