Tech giants' data center fever spreads to adjacent warehouses | The S…

Tech giants are leasing adjacent warehouse space to store equipment and materials for data center construction and maintenance, driving up industrial real estate demand and rents in key markets like Northern Virginia. Data center-related warehouse leasing in the mid-Atlantic is projected to reach 14 million square feet by 2030, up from 4 million in 2026. If you supply construction materials, rigging, electrical equipment or logistics to data center builders, you've just found your buyer willing to pay 39% more per square foot and sign long leases for storage. Construction delays are now structural, not temporary - that's recurring revenue for you.