MIT Center for Real Estate

What underlies the multi-faceted world of digital infrastructure design and development?

Listen to the latest CRE podcast – MSRED student Monisha Nasa speaks with Hossein Fateh, founder and CEO of Cloud Capital and CloudHQ, LLC, about the future of digital infrastructure.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrHv30hBypk&feature=youtu.be

Drawing on decades of experience in developing and operating data centers worldwide, Hossein discusses how the industry has evolved from cloud to AI, the differences between training and inference AI facilities, and the growing importance of power, location, and underwriting discipline.

He also shares perspectives on international expansion, development risk, renewable energy, and the policy case of data centers as critical infrastructure.

🌴Center for Real Estate student Cherry Tang reflects on an internship in Panama, where building a financial model became a broader lesson in how development, community, and environment intersect in practice.

Read on MIT News:
https://news.mit.edu/2026/month-in-panama-rethinking-what-real-estate-development-can-be-0429

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