PDG’s Chairman, CEO & Co-founder, Rangu Salgame, spoke with CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the significant shift that artificial intelligence has brought to the global data center industry. Rangu shed light on the nuances of building large scale data centers for AI. He spoke about the magnitude of investment required for building AI digital infrastructure and how data centers have become an attractive asset class for various classes of global investors.

PDG has a portfolio of 1GW of data center capacity across 6 countries in Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, India, China, Japan, Indonesia).