Entire industries are effectively being reset, and this transition has made digital infrastructure assets like data centers more important than ever, writes Strategic Capital Fund Management in this report. As other real estate sectors determine how best to deal with today’s uncharted market, data centers have taken center stage due to their essential designation and mission critical status.1
During this time, data centers have been successfully delivering the capacity and uptime that has allowed households and businesses to survive. Average data consumption has increased 47 percent from first quarter 2019, reported OpenVault’s Broadband Insights Report for first quarter 2020.2 And the first quarter also saw Peloton’s workout memberships increase 60 percent, a 41 percent surge in Nintendo’s annual profits, a 2,900 percent increase in Zoom participants (since December 2019), and 70 percent year-over-year first quarter growth for Amazon Web Service