The Nasdaq has long been home to some of the leading icons of go-go growth in the technology age, including companies like Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon.

It's not typically the place to shop for real estate investment trusts (REITs), those pools of income-producing properties managed more for dividends than for growth. In fact, of the approximately 225 publicly traded REITs, only 33 trade on the Nasdaq, and most have badly trailed the Nasdaq itself in total returns.

A notable exception is (NASDAQ: EQIX), which has made its fortune, and done the same for a lot of investors, mostly because of how closely it's tied to tech.

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Source Fool.com