In May of 2013 an interesting event stirred up the long brewing subject of maintenance capital expenses for public data center companies. The catalyst was a presentation at the 2013 Sohn investment conference, in which a presenter questioned accounting practices regarding maintenance cap-ex.
Read our WiredRE report on colocation data center maintenance cap-ex in the Data Center Research section at https://wiredre.com/data-center-maintenance-capital-expense-2013/
