CEO of Prologis Dan Letter Talks Data Centers, Global Logistics and Shipping
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Well, we'd like to remind everybody that Amazon, Home Depot, FedEx, UPS, also GigaCloud Technology are just some of our next guest big customers. We're talking about the $125 billion market cap company. It is a warehouse logistical REIT. It is Prologis. That is massive. And it owns, develops, and manages logistical warehouses for the biggest companies, like we just mentioned. And they've got more than 1.3 billion square feet in 20 countries. So What a great person to get a view in terms of the macro of what's going on around the world considering, Tim, our backdrop.
Shares up about 3% so far this year. We've got Dan Leder with us, CEO of Prologis. He joins us here in the studio. Dan, good to see you again. You just took over as CEO, though we've spoken just a few months before that. I want to start with what Carol mentioned in the macro because we are just squarely focused on an increase in oil prices as a result of the war in Iran, what that means for consumers, what it means for business leaders. How are you looking at the macro environment?
Yeah, well, first, thanks for having me. Great to be here with you, too. I look at the macro environment right now and I think about all the chaos and turbulence our customers have been through going back to COVID. Six years ago, the world was shut down, right? Over the course of these six years, Think of all the geopolitical events, post-COVID, the rate hikes and how that impacted our customers. And I actually look at these customers and I realize they've built a lot of endurance. They actually, this turbulence is more of a feature of the environment that we're living in today. And I look back to a conference where we were talking to investors a couple weeks ago, actually right after the weekend of the original Iran bombing.
We were telling our customers, 2026 started really strong. 2025 was our second largest leasing year ever, and we were seeing that go into 2026. Does that continue?
There's a lot that's happened. It's just, I think, kind of shocking, and we talk about this so much. No one expected some of the things that have come at us, Dan, in 2026. So since that, that was just a few weeks ago or a month ago or so, that update, and that you were talking with, is that optimism still there? And is your outlook on 2026 still the same?
So what we see at this time is customers don't necessarily pull back. I look back to last year at this time, we had expressed a little caution that led into what was Liberation Day, right? And you see customers just look around and see what's going on and then lean in they make long-term decisions five seven ten year decisions when they're working with us right and so they're really kind of seeing through that noise and when you look at these decisions they're making it's really only three to five percent of the overall cost of the supply chain so no people who were maybe going to sign a contract that backed out or anything like that well we hadn't seen that and it's really just a matter of they digest it and then they um it comes in different forms maybe you end up seeing some short-term leasing or but certainly no pullback
What about when it comes specifically to data centers? Because last time we talked with you about the data center activity you're seeing. And in that time, a lot has happened. We've heard from different companies. Microsoft is renting a Texas data center that was dropped by Oracle and OpenAI. Are you seeing any signs of weakness or slowdown or changing trends when it comes to the data center business?
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