AI – Simon Taylor's Blog

15 Oct 2026

How to finance a data centre

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Energy, Finance sector, Financial products, Infrastructure | 0

Data centres are a new(ish) form of infrastructure investment that because of the sheer scale of AI-related investment are getting a lot of attention. Data centres are not new but what is somewhat new is that they are increasingly be … Continued

Simon is Management Practice Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-2018 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and was later the first Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Management at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he is a member of the investment committee, and a research associate of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group, where he specialises in nuclear finance.

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