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Will the cloud kill the data centre? Jim Chanos thinks so

Veteran short seller is betting against server warehouses but some of the world’s biggest investors remain bullish

Veteran short seller Jim Chanos has a new target in his sight: the humble data centre.

In June, Chanos — who won big bets on the downfall of US energy group Enron and the German payments company Wirecard — announced that his eponymous investment firm is raising several hundred million dollars for a fund that will take short positions in US-listed data centre groups.

He argues that the move towards the cloud, predominantly driven by big tech groups like Microsoft, Amazon and Google, is the “enemy” of bricks-and-mortar real estate investment trusts like Equinix and Digital Realty.

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