What if Data-center power deals re-rate utilities, REITs and gas together?
AI-data-center demand simultaneously lifts utility rate-base growth, data-center REIT leasing and gas-fired generation, re-rating all three; the compute-to-power-to-real-estate chain becomes a coordinated AI-infrastructure trade.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. Loading the probability audit trail…
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. AI-data-center demand simultaneously lifts utility rate-base growth, data-center REIT leasing and gas-fired generation, re-rating all three; the compute-to-power-to-real-estate chain becomes a coordinated AI-infrastructure trade. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▲ · AI capex ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Risk appetite ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.