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As a real estate professional, you can’t avoid it—everyone is talking about data centers. Without a doubt, it is the most exciting sector for real estate investment in 2025. Over the past week, I’ve had six in-depth conversations with experts and pored over hundreds of pages of research from real estate advisory firms, Wall Street analysts, credit rating agencies, technology blogs, and newspapers. While a short piece cannot fully do justice to this fascinating, interdisciplinary topic, I will attempt to distill key insights and open questions worth considering. A list of references for further reading appears at the end.

On April 22, 2025, the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate hosted an insightful panel moderated by center co-director Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, featuring industry leaders Nasir Alamgir (Barings), Richard Cantor (Moody’s Investor Services), and Catherine Chen (Apollo Global Management). Below we summarize key insights on the evolving relationship between insurance companies, private equity (PE) asset managers, and commercial real estate lending that emerged from the panel discussion.

Reducing Agent Commission Fees May Raise Prices for Home-buyers According to Study from Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School research reveals the impact of employees' anticipation of in-person work on their engagement and feelings about work.

It is both technically possible and economically feasible to eliminate almost all the carbon dioxide from iron and steel production by mid-century, thus cleaning up an industry that accounts for 10 percent of global emissions. But progress will not happen without a concerted policy push.

Chris Levesque, President and CEO of TerraPower, explains how next-generation reactors and innovative energy storage are reshaping nuclear energy's role in the global transition to sustainability.

Understanding how to successfully implement AI in your organization is one thing, but actually doing so can be a different challenge. Dive into a case study from Morgan Stanley to see the keys to building trustworthy AI implementation.