With artificial intelligence dominating investors’ thoughts, there is a constant search for investment ideas to profit from the AI boom. Recently, one of my newsletter subscribers asked me about data center real estate investment trusts (REITs). They do exist, but I have not heard any discussion about them in the general AI investing talk.
With so much current discussion about data centers, you might think of them as a relatively new type of real estate; however, the need for data centers have been around for a couple of decades. There are two data center REITs, both of which have long track records.
This post originally appeared at Investors Alley.