Our global infrastructure is struggling to cope with the pace
with which our society is creating, consuming and sharing data.
With the rapid growth in the number of connected devices and the
increased demand for technologies and services such as the
'cloud', smart devices, 5G, blockchain and AI, there is a
race to build more data centers and make existing infrastructure
more efficient to cope with this global phenomenon.
This message featured heavily in the various panel discussions
at both the Datacloud Global Congress in Monaco and the Private
Equity Real Estate (PERE) conference in London — both of
which Ropes & Gray attended recently. In this Alert, we set out
a brief summary of the key investment trends driving the
development of this asset class and predictions for the remainder
of 2019 and beyond.
