The enduring economics of the tower business.
Why 10–15 year leases, 3% escalators, and 98%+ renewal rates still define one of the most durable real asset categories in the U.S. — and where the next leg of growth comes from.
Read analysisRetrospx is a rapidly expanding infrastructure platform developing the physical backbone of the digital economy — from 180-foot monopole towers and carrier colocation sites to next-generation data centers, IoT ecosystems, and the digital bridges that bind them together.
The next decade of economic growth will be decided by whoever controls the physical layer beneath it. AI, 5G, autonomous systems, and industrial IoT all share one dependency: infrastructure that can carry signal, move data, and deliver power at unprecedented density.
Retrospx was built for that reality. We don't operate in a single silo. We develop towers, data centers, IoT networks, and the digital bridges that fuse them into coherent, revenue-generating systems — owned long, built right, and positioned in the geographies where demand is compounding fastest.
About RetrospxSOURCES: GOLDMAN SACHS, MORGAN STANLEY, IEA, TOWER INDUSTRY AGGREGATE DATA.
Each business unit is commercially standalone — but engineered to compound with the others. A tower site becomes an edge compute node. A data center becomes a carrier anchor. An IoT ecosystem becomes a long-term demand driver for both.
180-foot monopole development, carrier colocation, and long-duration site ownership across rapidly densifying markets.
Power-forward, AI-ready facilities designed for the density, thermal load, and interconnection demands of modern compute.
Field-grade connectivity infrastructure for utilities, logistics, smart cities, and industrial operators at the edge.
Fiber, edge nodes, and interconnection assets that link distributed infrastructure into one coherent digital system.
Hyperscaler capex is tracking above $600B annually across the top four cloud providers, with roughly three-quarters now allocated to AI infrastructure. Morgan Stanley projects a 49 GW U.S. power shortfall by 2028. Demand is no longer the variable — delivery is.
Grid interconnection queues exceed 2,100 GW nationally. PJM has approved projects that sat in queue for 8 years. Land entitlement, substation capacity, and permitting capability are now the gating functions — not capital. Retrospx is built to clear them.
Monopoles hold 60% of the U.S. telecom tower market. Carrier leases carry 10–15 year terms, 3% annual escalators, and >98% renewal. Every additional tenant converts fixed-cost steel into exceptionally high-margin recurring revenue. The math is durable.
Carriers, municipalities, hyperscalers, landowners, developers, utilities — if your strategy depends on physical infrastructure delivered on schedule, we should talk.
Why 10–15 year leases, 3% escalators, and 98%+ renewal rates still define one of the most durable real asset categories in the U.S. — and where the next leg of growth comes from.
Read analysisTransformers booked 2+ years out. Grid interconnection queues measured in years. Capex at record highs. How operators are buying their way around the constraint — and where it's working.
Read analysisThe shortage moved upstream — from GPU fab, to CoWoS packaging, to HBM memory. What this means for data center delivery, procurement strategy, and who wins the next 24 months.
Read analysisWe've compounded the portfolio through disciplined development, selective acquisition, and a deliberate bias toward markets where carrier and hyperscaler demand are accelerating together. The roadmap ahead is larger than the one behind us.
View full timelineThe portfolio crosses its next inflection point as pipeline projects enter construction across three regions.
Regional expansion and municipal partnership work position Retrospx for the next tranche of growth.
A private-developer portfolio acquisition takes Retrospx to nearly 60 towers.
Frank leads Retrospx's development, permitting, and jurisdictional strategy — the operational discipline that determines whether projects reach the grid on time. A career spanning commercial operations and modern ecommerce systems gives him a rare fluency in both entitlement work and the commercial logic it serves.
Full biographyFred's career spans multiple eight-figure ecommerce exits, international operations, real estate development across land and vertical assets, and active development of tower and data center positions. He brings a platform-builder's instinct to the infrastructure market at exactly the moment it needs one.
Full biographyRetrospx is hiring across development, engineering, permitting, supply chain, and software. We're looking for operators who want to build real things — at real scale.