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A West Philadelphia renter’s class-action lawsuit against property manager Willow Bridge and software firm RealPage is reportedly the first case testing Philadelphia’s year-old ban on algorithmic rent-price coordination.
The Energy Department named Utah, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Idaho and Louisiana as finalists to host nuclear ‘innovation campuses’ that could draw $50 billion in investment and, potentially, adjacent data center development.
Meta and BlackRock announced a joint venture to develop and operate a roughly $14 billion, 1-gigawatt AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock-managed funds taking an 80% ownership stake and Meta as sole tenant.
Brookfield and NextEra Energy will develop a $100 billion AI data center campus with 4.6 gigawatts of dedicated power at DOE’s former Paducah, Ky., uranium enrichment site.
Lone Wolf Technologies launched Talent, an AI-powered addition to its BrokerMetrics platform that flags agents at risk of leaving a brokerage and helps build the case to recruit new ones, built around an AI teammate the company calls Aspen.
Nvidia is the previously unnamed tenant behind Hut 8’s $19.6 billion Beacon Point data center lease in Nueces County, Texas, the Financial Times reported, a deal that could grow to $50.2 billion if renewal options are exercised.
Nvidia is discussing a financing guarantee of up to $250 billion to help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt Ohio data center campus valued at $500 billion, according to people familiar with the talks.
California brokerage FirstTeam Real Estate is deploying Purlin’s AI operating platform to unify contracts, negotiations, and client communications for its agents.
Buyers and sellers are bringing AI-generated home values into negotiations β confident numbers missing comps, condition and concessions. How agents answer.
Galaxy Digital sold $3.507 billion in senior secured notes to fund new construction at its Helios data center campus in Dickens County, Texas, where CoreWeave has committed to lease the entire 800-megawatt site.
The NNSA has selected Amentum and DC BLOX to negotiate a phased lease for a 1-gigawatt AI data center backed by 2 gigawatts of on-site power at the Savannah River Site in Aiken County, South Carolina. No lease is final and construction has not started.
Nvidia and South Korea’s SK Group signed letters of intent for a partnership worth more than $500 billion, including a 2-gigawatt AI data center SK Telecom will build using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform.
Public filings and a rejected regulator request show Meta holds only a 20% stake in its own Louisiana data center campus, alongside a multibillion-dollar incentive package and unresolved questions about ratepayer risk.
Stillwater Development LLC has filed rezoning and state regional-impact requests for a data center campus of up to 1.25 gigawatts in Lovejoy, Clayton County, Georgia, about 25 miles south of Atlanta.
A Development of Regional Impact filing for a data center project surfaced this week in Troup County, Georgia, home to Google’s $8 billion Project Pegasus campus in LaGrange, though the applicant has not been publicly named.
Hut 8 Corp. says it has fully leased its 1-gigawatt Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas, after a second $9.8 billion lease brought total contracted value to $19.6 billion.
Voice cloning lets fraudsters confirm fake wire instructions in your agent’s exact voice. Why callbacks no longer protect closings β and what does.
LandBridge and PowerBridge have signed a lease development agreement for a 2-gigawatt data center campus on roughly 3,400 acres in Reeves County, Texas, near the Waha natural gas hub.
OpenAI said it will invest $20 billion in a 3.2-gigawatt data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia, its first self-designed, self-built data center project.
Columbia County, Georgia officials announced Thursday that Google will be the sole end user and operator of an 8 million-square-foot, 23-building data center campus in Appling, part of a deal tied to a Ratepayer Protection Pledge and local tax relief plans.
Digital Realty Trust topped Wall Street estimates in the second quarter of 2026 and raised its full-year guidance, citing strong leasing tied to AI-driven data center demand, according to its SEC-filed earnings release.
Reporting says DOGE used AI to flag HUD rules for deletion β and HUD withheld 100+ documents about it, citing a FOIA privilege that doesn’t exist.
Blackstone-affiliated LivCor agreed to pay $7 million and drop competitor-data rent software in a proposed nine-state deal. It denies wrongdoing.
Zillow’s Pro membership β consumer browsing signals, client collaboration and CRM integration β goes national after 20,000 agents tested the beta.
Virtual staging is cheaper and faster, but physical staging can create a stronger in-person experience. Hereβs how sellers should choose.
AI real estate search is moving buyers into a pre-search phase, changing how portals, agents and consumers connect.
Drone photography can help real estate listings stand out, but agents must understand FAA rules, safety and when aerial images add value.
AI tools can create fair housing violations in seconds. What agents, brokers and landlords should watch in 2026.
AI is entering real estate workflows fast. Which tools actually save agents and brokers time β and which are mostly hype.
AI-written listing descriptions can violate fair housing rules in seconds. The words and claims agents should avoid.
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