Data Centers Sector in REITs

July 29, 2009

In our recent REITs Report we spoke with David Aubuchon of  Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. where he discussed the outlook for REITs and a new asset class of REITs – Data Centers:

Digital Realty focuses on data centers. That is a fairly new real estate asset class and there’s a huge amount of demand for data centers, given the huge increase in Web-based activities from social networking sites, retailing, outsourcing from corporations, and the amount of video and music that is conducted over the Internet. It’s pretty dramatic. All of that is really increasing the demand for data center space, places to store our data digitally.”

“Digital is the one REIT I cover that could be labeled as having positive fundamen­tals now and for the foreseeable future.”

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