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Welcome to The Quantum City Pod, the show where cities meet supercomputing.Hosted by Greg Gomer and Chase Garbarino, co-founders of HqO, we explore the boldest ideas and real-world breakthroughs at the intersection of AI, urban innovation, real estate, and public policy.
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Data Center Deals Are Up 2,000%. Here's What It Means for CRE | QCI Show, Ep 39 (opens the original)
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The best month for commercial real estate transactions since 2005 just happened. Almost half of it wasn't really real estate. It was data centers. MSCI's July capital trends report puts total CRE transaction volume at $75 billion, up 78% year over year. Great headline. Strip out the $34 billion that came from data centers, though, and the rest of the market (apartments, retail, office) is basically flat. Data center volume alone is up almost 2,000%. This is the K-curve, live, and it's not slowin
Commercial Real Estate's Data Is Completely Broken | QCI Show, Ep 38 (opens the original)
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A 49-story, two-million-square-foot tower in Midtown Manhattan just went back to the bank. Not ideal. When Kravath, the building's anchor tenant, packed up and left for a Brookfield address, SL Green's occupancy at Worldwide Plaza tanked and the property landed in receivership, bleeding $484,000 a month. And here's the kicker: nobody can even agree on what "occupancy" meant when this deal got underwritten in the first place. That's the real story this week. Commercial real estate is still runnin
Why "Permission" Is Now America's Most Valuable Currency | QCI Show, Ep 37 (opens the original)
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The federal government just became a landlord for artificial intelligence. Last week it handed a shuttered Cold War uranium plant, ground lease and all, over to Brookfield and NextEra. $100 billion committed. A 1.2 gigawatt data center on the way. No tenant named yet, which might be the smartest part of the whole deal. Meanwhile, two bridges connecting Massachusetts to Cape Cod need $4.5 billion and more than a decade to rebuild. The math doesn't math. Elon Musk can stand up a data center in 60
Bring Your Own Power: PJM's Warning to Data Centers | QCI Show, Ep 36 (opens the original)
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PJM Interconnection (the grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states) went to market to buy power for 2028 and couldn't buy enough. So it did something no grid operator in America has done before: it told data centers in writing that if they don't bring their own power supply, it reserves the right to unplug them. Greg Gomer and Chase Garbarino unpack what that single sentence does to commercial real estate underwriting, why powered land just split into two different asset classes,
Dubai Just Built a Digital Twin of the Entire City. Why Can't America? | QCI Ep. 35 (opens the original)
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Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ Dubai just launched a live digital twin of the entire city - 195,000 buildings, 1,500 geospatial data layers, and a real operating system running underneath it all. So why isn't every city doing this? In the dog days of summer, Greg and Chase dig into the widening gap between cities that build and cities that block. The anchor: Brookfield and CPP Investments are taking LXP
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