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Ep13: How Investors Think About Data Center Risk and Opportunity

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Show Notes

In this episode, Scott Troeller, co-founder and managing partner, and Aaron Richardson, principal at Expedition Infrastructure Partners, discuss how power availability, supply chain constraints, labor shortages and execution risk are shaping investment decisions, valuations and infrastructure development as AI-driven demand accelerates across the market.

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