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Bruce Flatt

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132 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

So if you're in the real asset space in the private markets,

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

It's very difficult to entitle land.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

It's very difficult to get power.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

It's very difficult to build, because you can't get people to build.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

And therefore, the investment is tough to do.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

And that's why the returns in it are excellent, because people need skills to be able to do it.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

What most people focus on is the public markets.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

There's a few securities which everyone wants to own, and therefore multiples go higher.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

But in the private markets, it's very different.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

And there is an underinvestment in what's going on in private markets because everyone's looking for additional AI cloud capacity, and it's very tough to build.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

Easy sites have been built.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

or committed, the hard sites, now the hard work starts.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

And in particular, we need power.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

And as you know, we have a huge power business.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

And that's the bottleneck in artificial intelligence for the next 10 years.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

First, when we build out infrastructure, we're generally leasing them for 25, 10, 20, 30 years.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

to governments or large scale technology companies.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

And we just have long term contracts.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

This is just a leasing business, but we're building things for them that are super critical and only we and a few others can build them.

Bloomberg Talks
Brookfield Asset Management CEO Bruce Flatt Talks Succession, AI and Strategy

So we're providing that backbone infrastructure and