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Data centers will be the largest investment in US history, with Kervin Pillay, former CTO of Cisco — Episode 49 of Onward

Data-center veteran Kervin Pillay walks us through the coming AI infrastructure boom.

By the Fundrise TeamJuly 10, 2025

Data-center veteran Kervin Pillay walks us through the coming AI infrastructure boom. Pillay argues the U.S. is about to sink 10x the capital it took to create the Interstate Highway System into new capacity, racing toward “hundreds of gigawatts” of compute—each gigawatt-scale campus drawing more power than a major city.

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