The data center property sector is a critical link supporting three global economic megatrends — decarbonization, digitalization and supply-chain transformation — according to a report by Actis’s Brian Chinappi, partner and head of real estate, and Thomas Liu, partner and head of Greater China and Asia data center, which was published in the January issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific. “The sector is a mix of real estate and infrastructure, and developments must deliver on both counts,” write the authors of the report. “The land, core and shell can be categorised as real estate, requiring the expertise typically associated with industrial property. But the success of these assets also depends on specialist knowledge of how to operate infrastructure, to be able to deliver a fully powered, energy-efficient, no-fail facility that runs 24 hours a day, all year long.” To access a pdf of the Sponsored Section,
