CleanSpark Secures Twenty-Year Lease with High-Investment Grade Global Technology Company for Data Center in Sandersville, Georgia
Why this matters
This long-term, high-value lease underscores the growing institutional appetite for data centers as a core real estate asset class, driven by the secular expansion of cloud computing and digital infrastructure. A two-decade triple-net lease with a high-investment-grade tenant signals a flight to income stability amid broader CRE market volatility. The scale of contracted revenue and critical IT load capacity highlights the premium placed on hyperscale facilities capable of supporting next-generation technology demands. For allocators, this deal exemplifies how data centers are evolving beyond niche plays into cornerstone holdings within diversified real estate portfolios, offering inflation-linked cash flows and tenant credit quality that traditional office or retail sectors currently struggle to match. From a capital-markets perspective, the extended lease term and credit profile may facilitate more favorable financing structures, potentially unlocking lower-cost, long-duration debt. The timing of deliveries several years out also reflects the sector’s long development horizons and the importance of securing pre-leased projects to mitigate leasing risk. Overall, this transaction signals continued robust institutional capital flows into data center real estate, reinforcing its role as a defensive growth sector amid shifting CRE fundamentals.
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- Disclosed capital deal value tracked in July 2026: $22.3B across 56 reported transactions.
Computed from Real Estate Trail’s own tracked coverage
Twenty-year triple-net (NNN) lease totaling $6.6 billion in contracted revenue, with up to $11.6 billion after full extension options 175 MW of critical IT load with deliveries expected to begin in Q4 2027 to a high-i…
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