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A Data Center Still Needs More Than a Trending Noun
· New York time
HSBC’s chief executive warned that the AI boom will not make every data center a good investment. The distinction matters because these campuses house the servers behind AI and cloud computing, connecting a broad technology story to individual capital-intensive projects. Strong demand for a category does not establish the merits of every asset within it. Project economics still require assessment. An industry can be important while particular investments disappoint, a distinction that tends to receive less stage lighting than the phrase next industrial revolution. The warning brings ordinary financial scrutiny back into a very fashionable construction conversation. A building cannot pay its obligations by repeatedly explaining that it contains the future. Eventually, the future must produce something recognizable as cash.
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