AI has taken on a hype of its own. Software companies feel compelled to extoll the wonders of their products' artificial intelligence aspects to say nothing of the ones making everything into generative AI.
But talk is cheap and building data centers for AI implementation is more complicated than raising money, making plans, and a ribbon-cutting. BlackRock's iShares recently released a report on AI and geopolitics. It also contains some observations about creating the infrastructure for AI that will have implications for the CRE property aspect.
The important part of the report for this aspect is the second one. The more demand for AI, particularly generative AI, the greater the need for materials, semiconductors, and energy.
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