AI isn’t weightless. It runs on concrete, cooling, and community consent.

What Data Centers Are Doing to the Housing Market Next Door

Published on: 19/08/2026

A new Realtor.com report expected to find falling home values near data centers. It found something else: a decade-long pattern in where the industry keeps choosing to build, and what that pattern reveals about who has power to negotiate.

Policy & Community
What Data Centers Are Doing to the Housing Market Next Door

Welcome to Dirt to Data: Real Estate Behind AI Infrastructure

Published on: 19/08/2026

Suhail Y Tayeb launches Dirt to Data, a newsletter tracking the real estate, power, and infrastructure decisions behind the AI buildout, covering permitting, power delivery, and where compute meets concrete.

Data Centers & AI Infrastructure
Welcome to Dirt to Data: Real Estate Behind AI Infrastructure

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