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Dan Caplinger

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

I know for years, companies like Microsoft and Google have been building data centers with paying close attention to where they get their energy from and signing deals with local water power resources in places like Canada and northern Sweden, for that matter.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

There's a Google data center up in Kiruna somewhere.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

that is powered by a local waterfall, basically.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

So it's not exactly new, but it's up to a new level.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

So one stock I'm really excited about in this space is HP Enterprise, one half of the old Hewlett Packard conglomerate that's been around for decades.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

But it split up in two parts about 10 years ago, and HPE has become a giant in building high-powered computer systems, which is perfect for the kind of data centers that AI hyperscalers need.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

When you look at the top 500 list of supercomputers these days, in the top 10, about six of them, I believe, were built by HP in the last update in November.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

And these guys know how to build really high powered systems.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

That comes in handy at this point.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

So despite the HPE's muscle in the data center space where they can provide anything from the actual supercomputers to now with Juniper Networks, the networks that put them together and the feed data from one part of the system to another and then out to the world.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

They build everything except the building, basically.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

And despite this strong position, the stock is trading like an absolute bargain with a forward PE around eight and a price turn to growth ratio about 0.5.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

Anything below one is supposed to be a bargain, and this is a good bargain.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

Price to sales is under one, too.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

It's like, you know, you're buying a Walmart stock here, but you're getting an AI powerhouse instead.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

So it's hard to beat that in my book.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

And I'm actually excited about boring old HP at this point.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

Right, so Dan was talking about the plumbing that goes into data centers, and mine is one of those.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

You have power generation, you have AI systems, you need to connect them together so they can actually run on that power.

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For Data Centers, Power is the New Real Estate (Literally)

And one of the specialists in that is Schneider Electric.