Spain's Merlin Properties bets on AI boom to drive revenue growth
Spanish real estate group Merlin Properties expects its fledgling data centre business to account for about 40% of its revenue by 2030 as it taps into a boom in artificial intelligence, CEO Ismael Clemente told Reuters. Data centres made up less than 1% of Merlin's revenue in the first half of this year, which mainly came from offices, shopping malls and logistics. But Clemente estimated that its data centre division would bring in around 394 million euros ($437.42 million) in gross rents, or about 40% of the total, by the end of the decade.