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Here’s My Honest Opinion on This…I Couldn’t Agree More.

Name: Here’s My Honest Opinion on This…I Couldn’t Agree More.
Uploaded: 2026-02-16T19:23:16+00:00
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Channel: Hannah Hammond
Description: In a brief dialogue, Speaker A, a lifelong real‑estate investor, argues that while real estate remains a dominant asset class, the next lucrative sector…

16 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In a brief dialogue, Speaker A, a lifelong real‑estate investor, argues that while real estate remains a dominant asset class, the next lucrative sector is data centers driven by exploding AI demand. He cites a domestic need for 45 GW of data‑center capacity versus only 5 GW currently under construction, positioning himself as the builder to fill the gap. Speaker B echoes this view, praising Kevin O’Leary, emphasizing national‑security concerns about foreign‑hosted data, and highlighting the exponential growth in data‑storage needs. He notes that they are currently financing a data‑center project and see massive wealth‑creation potential in further developments, expressing strong enthusiasm for expanding into this space.

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Is real estate still king? Are we all lying to ourselves? I've been an investor in real estate my whole life. Real estate is always king, but it's what sector you're in. Are you in residential? Are you in commercial? Where am I going now? Data centers. We have such AI demand and they're so hard and so complex to make, and they're so huge now, really. Demand domestic for 45 gigawatts of data centers, only 5 under construction. Who's going to build the rest? Me.
I love Kevin o' Leary and I couldn't agree more with what he's saying here. I am so long on data centers, AI is here to stay and it's going to change the world. Now with AI, the need for data storage is exponentially growing. And as the country, we want to bring this data storage into the US because it's not safe to have other countries store our data. So the need for data centers is so great and there are a lot of constraints in the development. So there's a lot of opportunity here to be able to create massive wealth and have massive returns in these data center developments. So I'm long on data centers. We're actually working on financing one right now, and I'm excited to do many, many, many more.