Commercial Real Estate and Big Tech Are Proving to Be a Toxic Mix

Rising interest rates and heavy debt loads are a problem for parts of the data center industry

Lights on server racks at a data center.

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

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Rising interest rates and heavy debt loads are casting a financial pall over pockets of the data-center industry, a segment of the commercial real estate sector that powers much of what we do online.