What's the role of real estate in Australia's unprecedented energy expansion?

Amid the mind-boggling growth in global power demand, real estate is undergoing a shift from passive consumers of energy to active energy participants.

As buildings become increasingly capable of generating, storing and trading electricity, they are undergoing a shift, becoming a critical part of the energy ecosystem supporting the relentless demand for energy (and physical space) from AI, data centres, electric vehicles and industrial electrification – a phenomenon coined the ‘energy expansion’.

Learn more in this panel discussion at the CommBank Momentum event in Sydney in late 2025. Speakers are:

Luke Billiau, head of capital markets – Australia, JLL; Carly Wishart from hyperscale data centre provider AirTrunk; Taryn Gupta, managing director and CEO, Stockland; and Frank Calabria, chief executive, Origin Energy.