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Dec 10, 2025

Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2026 Highlights Surging Demand for Data Centers and Senior Housing

PwC and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) have released Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2026, the 47th edition of the annual industry forecast covering the U.S. and Canada.

Report details and scope: Draws on responses from more than 1,700 investors, developers, lenders, and advisors, is the 47th edition, and provides market rankings, data tables, and interactive analyses across the U.S. and Canada; full report available from PwC and the Urban Land Institute (link in article).
Key sector findings and specifics:Data centers: national vacancy is below 2%, with power availability now a primary site-selection constraint as AI and cloud demand outpace supply; Senior housing: the first baby boomers turn 80 in 2026, driving rising occupancy and limited new supply; also highlights self-storage, student housing, and a split recovery in office markets.

Dec 10, 2025

Top Environmental Victories of 2025

The Sierra Club announces a roundup of its top environmental victories in 2025.

Major announced actions: The article catalogs specific legal, legislative, and advocacy wins including: stopping a proposed public-lands sell-off after Congressional withdrawal; passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York (following Vermont in 2024) and introduced bills in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine; legal victories blocking Commonwealth LNG (coastal use permit terminated) and two lawsuits creating guardrails on data centers in Kansas and Michigan; NEVI program restart unlocking $2.7 billion for EV charging; and a $744 million jury verdict against Chevron for coastal damages in Louisiana.
Background and additional details: The piece lists species and land protections (Northern Rockies wolves, Colorado bison, Rice’s whales), closure of Merrimack Station (final New England coal plant) and repeal of an Ohio coal-bailout that would have cost nearly half a billion dollars, passage of Utah’s balcony solar law allowing small plug-in systems without utility approval, a coalition delivering ~500,000 public comments to defend the Roadless Rule (including 40,000 from Sierra Club advocates), and a world-record origami action sending more than 86,000 paper fish to oppose Enbridge’s Line 5.

Dec 9, 2025

Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in the United States

Microsoft has announced major expansions of its Azure cloud and AI datacenter infrastructure across the United States, including a new East US 3 region in Atlanta and new Availability Zones in multiple existing regions.

Infrastructure expansion: Microsoft will launch the East US 3 Azure region in the Greater Atlanta Metro area in early 2027, designed for advanced Azure and AI workloads, with Availability Zones for resiliency and facilities targeting LEED Gold certification and alignment with Microsoft’s carbon, water, waste, and sustainability commitments; additional AZs will be added in North Central US (by end of 2026), West Central US (early 2027), US Gov Arizona (early 2026), and expanded in East US 2 (Virginia) and South Central US (Texas) in 2026.
Government and customer focus: Microsoft will add three Availability Zones to the US Government Arizona region in early 2026 to support zone-redundant, compliant architectures for government and Defense Industrial Base customers, complementing the Azure for US Government Secret region launched earlier in the year; customer examples include the University of Miami using Azure AZs for disaster recovery in a hurricane-prone region and the State of Alaska consolidating infrastructure and improving resiliency by migrating to Azure.

Dec 5, 2025

Insatiable demand for data centers is pushing development to high-risk areas

Bisnow reports that data center developers are building in high-risk hurricane and flood zones across the United States.

Main point: Data center construction is booming in U.S. high-risk regions such as Houston and Miami, driven by rising demand for AI, cloud services, and digital infrastructure; developers prioritize power availability, proximity to population centers, and flexible/resilient infrastructure over traditional site risk.
Background/details: Utilities are struggling to scale transmission capacity, leading operators to adopt redundant power systems, robust flood protection, modular on-site generation, and other resilient design measures as described by Allan Schurr; these infrastructure investments are presented as alternatives to long grid upgrades.

Dec 2, 2025

Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, posted a monthly roundup of active data center job openings on the Pkaza jobs board.

Main announcement: Data Center Frontier and Pkaza published a list of open roles (examples: Data Center Facility Technician, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Construction Project Manager, Electrical Engineer, Critical Power Sales Associate, Sr Mechanical Engineer, Site Selection Manager/Director/VP, Electrical Project Manager, MEP Superintendent, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Engineering Design Director, Navy Nuke Facility Technician) posted on Pkaza’s jobs board; positions are available across many US cities including Ashburn, VA; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Montvale, NJ; Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; New Albany, OH; Phoenix, AZ.
Background and details: Roles are for mission-critical data center employers (developers, colo providers, contractors, commissioning firms) and frequently emphasize reliability, energy efficiency, sustainable design / LEED expertise and commissioning; some listings explicitly accept Navy Nuke / military veterans and many positions list multiple alternative locations or hybrid/remote options. Author: Kathy Hitchens (Data Center Frontier).

Dec 2, 2025 · RMI

The Five Types of Electro-Industrial States

Rocky Mountain Institute presents a typology classifying US states into five electro-industrial archetypes.

Main announcement/action: RMI authors classify states into five archetypes — Momentum Hubs (Arizona, California), Fast‑Track Builders (Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ohio, Idaho), Policy Champions (New York, Michigan, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania), Open‑Door Starters (Vermont, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi, Iowa), and Early‑Stage Starters (Missouri, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Maine, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas). The typology is based on policy reliability, regulatory ease, economic capacity, physical infrastructure (power and interconnection), and market momentum.
Background and details: The analysis highlights that market momentum and policy reliability should operate in tandem; low regulatory burdens accelerate short-term investment but may strain local housing and infrastructure without accompanying policy ambition. The authors reference the report GREASE Lightning as a policy playbook for designing investment-led, state-driven electro-industrial strategies.

Dec 1, 2025

Hurricanes in 2024 led to the most hours without power in the United States in 10 years

U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that U.S. electricity customers experienced an average of 11 hours of electricity interruptions in 2024, nearly twice the annual average of the previous decade.

Main finding: The EIA’s Electric Power Annual 2024 shows U.S. customers averaged 11 hours of interruptions in 2024; Hurricanes Beryl, Helene, and Milton accounted for 80% of hours without electricity, and interruptions attributed to major events averaged nearly 9 hours in 2024 versus nearly 4 hours (2014–2023). The report uses industry metrics SAIDI and SAIFI to characterize outages.
Details & state impacts: The report cites South Carolina averaged nearly 53 hours without power in 2024; Hurricane Beryl left 2.6 million Texas customers without power (July), Hurricane Helene left 5.9 million customers across 10 states (with at least 1.2 million in South Carolina), and Hurricane Milton left 3.4 million Florida customers without power; Hawaii averaged 4.4 interruptions, while several states (Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota, Massachusetts) averaged less than 2 hours of interruptions.

Nov 13, 2025

Cassava Technologies and Entanglement, Inc. partner to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyber security, and quantum innovation across Africa and the Middle East

Cassava Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Entanglement, Inc. to fast-track AI, cyber security, and quantum-inspired solutions across Africa and the Middle East.

Main announcement: The MoU combines Cassava’s infrastructure (high-speed fibre networks, GPU-enabled compute, regional data centres, and the launch of GPU-as-a-Service) with Entanglement’s AI and quantum-inspired platforms to deploy solutions across Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, and the Gulf. The partnership will deliver technologies addressing cyber security, healthcare, climate sustainability, and data centre efficiency.
Background and implementation details: Initial focus areas include seQure’s Ground-Truth™ for telecommunications and cyber operations, DCAP (Data Center Awareness Platform) testing at Entanglement’s secure West Palm Beach data center (noted as located on the Mar-A-Lago power grid) to support export compliance and prevent AI misuse, Hyper.Train™ for data centre optimisation, Prepaire™ for real-time biosurveillance, and Quantum Almanac™ for climate forecasting. The collaboration also includes establishing innovation hubs, training programmes, and co-creation initiatives for skills development and knowledge transfer.

Nov 13, 2025

Cassava Technologies and Entanglement, Inc. partner to accelerate AI, cyber security, and quantum innovation across Africa and the Middle East

Cassava Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Entanglement, Inc. to fast-track advanced digital solutions across Africa and the Middle East.

Main announcement: Cassava Technologies and Entanglement will combine Cassava’s infrastructure (high-speed fibre networks, GPU-enabled compute, regional data centres, and newly launched GPU-as-a-Service) with Entanglement’s AI, cyber security, and quantum-inspired platforms to deploy solutions across Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, and the Gulf. The partnership will initially focus on cyber security (seQure’s Ground-Truth™), AI Infrastructure Assurance (DCAP) hosted at Entanglement’s secure West Palm Beach data center, data centre optimisation (Hyper.Train™), biosurveillance (Prepaire™), and climate forecasting (Quantum Almanac™).
Background and implementation details: The MoU covers collaboration on advancing seQure’s DCAP (Data Center Awareness Platform) at Entanglement’s West Palm Beach data center (noted as located on the Mar-A-Lago power grid) to help standardize assurances for U.S. chip exports and prevent AI infrastructure misuse; deployment of seQure’s Ground-Truth™ for telecom and cyber operations; scaling Hyper.Train™ to reduce AI energy costs and improve training/inference performance; implementing Prepaire™ for real-time pathogen detection; and rolling out Quantum Almanac™ forecasting. The collaboration will also establish innovation hubs, training programmes, and co-creation initiatives with governments, enterprises, and academia to support skills development and knowledge transfer.

Nov 10, 2025

Building the Future: Inside DataBank’s Red Oak Campus Construction

DataBank has announced construction of its 292-acre Red Oak campus 21 miles south of downtown Dallas, delivering eight data centers and 3.4 million gross square feet of AI-ready capacity.

Main details: The campus will deliver eight data centers (each two-story building: 425,000 gross sq ft, including 200,000 sq ft of data center space). Phase 1 expands DataBank’s Dallas presence to 12 data centers; construction is underway and is powered by a 400MW Oncor substation delivering up to 240MW of critical IT power in Phase 1 and scaling to 480MW at full buildout. Initial Ready for Service is targeted for Q2 2026.
Background and additional details: This is DataBank’s third major campus announcement in the past year (following acquisitions in Atlanta and Northern Virginia); when all three sites are fully developed they will add >450 acres, 5.8 million sq ft of data center space, and 792MW of power to DataBank’s portfolio. Construction metrics provided include 19,008 power whips, >1,000,000 feet of Sealtite conduit (198 miles), 990 miles of copper wire, 1,760,000 feet of 864-count fiber (333 miles), and individual fiber strands that would wrap the Earth 11.5 times.

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