September 27, 2026
Bonus Content: Distressed Offices Are Becoming Data Centers. Silver and Copper Pay Attention.
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Distressed Offices Are Becoming Data Centers. Silver and Copper Pay Attention.
The story most investors are telling about the commercial real estate collapse is about losses. The more useful story is about what replaces those buildings, and what that replacement consumes.
The CMBS office delinquency rate climbed to a record 12.34% in January 2026, the highest since Trepp began tracking the metric in 2000. That is not a cyclical soft patch. The end of “extend and pretend” is forcing lenders and borrowers toward workouts or foreclosures. Roughly $875 billion to $936 billion in commercial real estate loans are scheduled to mature in 2026. Class B and C office towers in secondary markets are the most exposed, and they are landing in the hands of opportunistic buyers at prices that would have seemed absurd three years ago.
A growing number of those buyers are not housing developers. They are edge data center operators. Firms such as EdgeNebula are converting underutilized or vacant urban real estate, including empty offices, into data centers designed to handle AI-era power demands on the existing city grid. The conversion can take as little as two months, using modular deployments with liquid cooling and waste heat recovery for the host building or local district heating networks. The economics are compelling: in top North American colocation markets, vacancy has been near zero, with Northern Virginia at 0.2% in the first half of 2026, keeping utilization extremely tight for available capacity.
This is where the precious metals angle sharpens. Every repurposed office tower that goes live as an edge facility is a new consumer of silver and copper, in volumes that dwarf anything typical office tenants required. The World Silver Survey 2026 says Metals Focus and the Silver Institute expect silver offtake from data centers alone to exceed 10% of electrical and electronics demand next year. Silver is used in AI and data centers primarily as an electrical and electronic material, with key applications including electrical contacts, connectors, switches, relays, circuit boards, semiconductor packaging, and power-management equipment. This lands on top of a silver market that has been running a supply deficit for multiple consecutive years, with industrial use accounting for roughly half of all annual silver demand.
Copper’s exposure is just as direct. Wood Mackenzie finds that base metals demand from data centers extends beyond the servers and cooling units inside the facility to grid reinforcement and transmission networks, with that additional layer significantly expanding the metals demand created by each data center. Trafigura estimates AI could add up to 1.0 million tonnes of additional copper demand by 2030. Edge conversions are small individually, but they are multiplying across hundreds of mid-tier markets simultaneously, each one connecting to existing urban substations rather than greenfield grid extensions.
Where the Opportunity Sits
Class B and C office collateral remains a conversion, or rescue-capital problem for traditional real estate lenders. For metals investors, it is something else: a structural demand driver arriving through an unexpected channel. The distressed office cycle and the AI infrastructure buildout are two separate stories that are quietly merging into one metals demand event.
Silver miners with low all-in costs and exposure to growing industrial off-take, and copper producers positioned for tight refined balances in 2026, are the clearest beneficiaries. The fire sale in commercial real estate is, in a roundabout way, a purchase order for both metals.