Servers Over Shelter: How AI Data Centers Are Outbidding Home Builders for America’s Land
As AI use has grown, so has demand for the facilities that make it possible. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta were expected to spend more than $300 billion in capital expenditures in 2025, with much of that spending tied to AI infrastructure, cloud capacity, and data center buildouts. That demand is being met with land, and much of it is land that would otherwise have become housing.
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Housing Affordability Resources for Land Use
Housing affordability continues to worsen in the U.S. Learn more about some of the land use regulation.
Land Use Regulation Barriers and Fees
Lengthy and complicated review processes related to land use and land development represent an especially difficult challenge for affordably priced housing.
Land Use Community Planning and Design
To meet the needs of a growing population, federal, state and local land use policies that accommodate an orderly and sustainable rate of housing production are a necessity.
This toolkit is a resource to explore impact fees and their potential effects on the local community, and to provide strategies for balanced infrastructure financing solutions.
These case studies showcase how communities are tackling the housing affordability crisis.
How local exclusionary land use regulations continue to create inequity in housing.