Our digital lives are driving a brick-and-mortar boom in data centers

Real estate investment trusts focused on data centers delivered returns of 19% in the first half of 2020 — one of only two REIT sectors that showed growth, according to a recent report by JLL. (The other sector, industrials, yielded a modest 2% return.) By comparison, returns for hotel and resort REITs plunged 49%, those for retail fell 37% and office space dropped 25%.

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