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American Real Estate Partners (AREP), an institutional fund manager, and Harrison Street, an investment management firm, have signed a joint venture (JV) to invest US$1 billion in the development of six powered shell data centres in Ashburn and Arcola, Virginia. The facilities will amount to 2.1 million square feet of space with each building ranging from 265,000 to 440,000 square feet in size...

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