The Pulse

Over the past fifteen years, I have negotiated, implemented, and enforced Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs), also known as Host...

State and local governments face a persistent fiscal dilemma: heavy reliance on income taxes that fluctuate with economic cycles and...

America's ten largest cities hold tens of millions of square feet of vacant industrial space—from Chicago's 4.5% vacancy to Austin's...

On September 15, 2025, Governor Katie Hobbs signed Executive Order 2025-13, “Removing Barriers to Delivering Affordable Energy for...

With all the hype around AI and data centers today, the power and potential for AI to solve our problems sometimes gets lost in the...

Opposition to data center expansion has become fashionable—a rallying cry for those who mistake the scaffolding of progress for its...

Many of Arizona's largest cities already host large-scale data centers. Concerns about data center development are national—and have...

I recently read this article on Construction Dive and it got me thinking.   Many states in the past several years have taken action to...

Data center development is increasingly a permitting story as much as a real estate or technology story. Federal policy is moving...

As reported in WSJ today, BlackRock is investing billions in a new data-center project near El Paso.  This isn't just another financing...