Data centers are an essential piece of global digital infrastructure. They're a nerve center for data storage, cloud computing, and internet connectivity, and the demand for their services and storage capacity has grown dramatically in recent years.

So has their value. There used to be several publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) that owned and operated data centers, but that number has shrunk after three were bought in the past year: QTS, CyrusOne and CoreSite.

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