Data Centre REITs in Singapore: Which is the best?

Data centres are an asset class that is highly essential as they are required to store data and provide connectivity. All companies with a digital footprint would require data centres to store and manage their data.

Data centres are highly sought after as investments due to their high occupancy rates and companies have been adding new supply across the world to meet an ever increasing demand.

In Singapore, Data centre REITs are a relatively new subclass in the REITs space with:

• 2 pure play data centre REITs:
  1. Digital Core REIT (SGX:DCRU),
  2. Keppel Data Centre REIT (SGX:AJBU)
• 2 other REITs that have expanded into data centre assets:
  1. Mapletree Industrial Trust (SGX:ME8U),
  2. Ascendas REIT (SGX:A17U)

Valuation of 4 Data Centre REITs in Singapore

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