Housing Politics & Elections

The interconnect used to be the hard part. Now it's the power-management stack on top of it.

Both companies told FERC a signed data center power deal can be canceled or rewritten after the money is committed, a new underwriting risk.

The chipmaker's bet on a company that sells power-backed sites, not buildings, shows where the AI infrastructure bottleneck actually sits.

A stranded federal industrial site becomes the collateral for a $105 billion guarantee, and a preview of how site selection works when power is the asset.

The chip maker is buying into the company that turns interconnection queues into an inventory problem, not a single Ohio-sized campus bet.

Amazon confirmed a robotics plant on 300 acres of Austin's Dog's Head site, and asked for no incentives. That's the tell for industrial landowners.

The 1,593-key resort's water park was cleared to bypass Miami Beach's Historic Preservation Board under a March 2026 state law. A neighbor is suing anyway.

A Fortune 500 drugmaker picks a master-planned Houston park over a from-scratch site, and the site-selection math shows why.

Hutto, Texas approved incentives for Blue Origin's $650M, 1.3M-sf plant, 2,000+ jobs at $88K average, terms still undisclosed.

A voluntary permit withdrawal in Lake County is a preview of how litigation, not power, is starting to set the pace on hyperscale land.

A South Florida company is putting its capital into rural Arkansas power capacity instead of home-market land, and that says something about where site selection is headed.

A 670-unit condo priced from the $450,000s is a bet that stadium-adjacent Miami Gardens, not the coastal corridor, is where the next wave of SoFla buyers gets housed.

Cost allocation is being written state by state, so the regulator you land under is now a site-selection variable.

The site chase now follows the power. OpenAI locked 3.2 GW from Georgia Power before pouring a single footing.

Power availability gated site selection. Cost allocation is becoming the next gate.

A voucher boom is turning school buildings into a development pipeline.

The constraint on AI infrastructure stopped being demand and became interconnection. That changes where you can build, not whether.

The city is racing a November ballot measure. Developers should read the calendar, not the press release.

Power was the gating factor. Local politics is now the second one, and it is not evenly distributed.

The largest industrial proposal on Long Island in years, and it hangs on a zoning change and a tax package.

Power gets built first and the load follows. Mississippi County, Arkansas is the clearest example yet of generation-led site selection.

Seven 34-story towers on 12 acres, cleared largely by state preemption of local zoning. This is the scale Live Local now enables.

The air-taxi maker's site choice is a power story: 4,000 amps per building is what pulled it south of San Jose.

A county of 6,743 people just landed a gigawatt. The interconnect is the reason.

A near-$1B foreign manufacturer absorbed finished North Texas industrial instead of breaking ground.

A verified recruitment letter with nothing in it yet, which is itself the datapoint.

Tribal land opens a new site-selection lane in a Phoenix market where developable dirt near the freeways is scarce.

When one buyer corners a rural corridor, the land market moves before the projects are even announced.

Fully entitled data-center ground in Data Center Alley has never been scarcer, and the per-acre number proves it.

Now that the ban is real, the question is how capital routes around it, and the widest lane points straight at build-to-rent.

The most sweeping federal housing law since 1990 became law automatically after Trump declined to sign or veto it.

A housing-policy week from Washington to the states, a first sign of data-center cooling, and a capital market that would not sit still. The week that was in US development.