A $70 billion investment firm just launched a dedicated platform to acquire land near major power infrastructure for AI data center development — and its first project is a 430-megawatt campus in Indiana backed by billions in financing tied directly to power access.
For industrial land owners across Southern California, this is not a story about Indiana. It is a signal about what is happening to industrial land values near power infrastructure right now.
In this video, Oron Maher, Broker-Director at Maher Commercial Realty, explains why the AI infrastructure race is rapidly changing how industrial land is valued — and why the repricing is already underway.
What industrial land owners need to know:
▶ Sites near substations, transmission corridors, and existing generation capacity are beginning to command premiums that traditional industrial underwriting would not have justified even two years ago
▶ Institutional capital is not waiting for those premiums to be fully reflected in the market — it is moving ahead of them
▶ Southern California’s existing power infrastructure footprint makes select industrial parcels in this region directly relevant to the national AI data center land acquisition wave
▶ Owners who understand what their proximity to power infrastructure means for their asset’s value are in a fundamentally different position than those who do not
The AI infrastructure buildout is the largest single driver of industrial land demand in a generation. The owners who recognize that earliest will capture the most value from it.
📍 Maher Commercial Realty — Beverly Hills. Industrial, NNN, and commercial assets across Greater Los Angeles.
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