{"id":6351,"date":"2026-09-09T07:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/09\/09\/data-center-reits-gain-as-ai-boom-faces-community-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:34:10","slug":"data-center-reits-gain-as-ai-boom-faces-community-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/09\/09\/data-center-reits-gain-as-ai-boom-faces-community-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Center REITs Gain as AI Boom Faces Community Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing community resistance and regulatory hurdles for new AI data center developments are creating a potential tailwind for established Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) like Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, and Iron Mountain. These REITs, which own and operate existing data infrastructure, are positioned to benefit from constrained supply and rising demand for computing power.<\/p>\n<p>Despite facing challenges such as permitting delays and increased costs, these companies offer attractive dividend yields and robust growth prospects, making them a compelling investment within the AI infrastructure sector.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/09\/05\/these-dividend-stocks-could-catch-a-tailwind-from-data-center-pushback.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing community resistance and regulatory hurdles for new AI data center developments are creating a potential tailwind for established Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) like Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, and Iron Mountain. These REITs, which own and operate existing data infrastructure, are positioned to benefit from constrained supply and rising demand for computing power. Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/equinix-data-center-ashburn-virginia.jpg?c_fill,q_auto:good,w_1280,c_scale","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_executive-alex-pettee","rifnote_executive-amanda-martinez","rifnote_executive-david-guarino","rifnote_executive-vikram-malhotra"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/equinix-data-center-ashburn-virginia.jpg?c_fill,q_auto:good,w_1280,c_scale","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}