NFPA 855’s 2026 rewrite, a 240-minute fire-resistance mandate in NSW, and insurers pricing a $25M+ loss-per-fire risk mean on-site battery rooms now need their own diligence line before you sign.

Uptime Institute finds fewer than 4% of US data centers can support 100kW+ racks, even as North American vacancy sits at a record-low 1% — here’s what the density gap means for AI capacity buyers.

A Montana AI company just filed the first lawsuit testing a ‘right to compute’ law against a city moratorium — as active U.S. data center restrictions hit 583 across 46 states.

North America absorbed a record 25 GW of data center capacity in H1 2026, but enterprise buyers needing 1-3 MW are losing the queue to hyperscale leases.

At least six class-action noise lawsuits hit data center operators in 2026 — from Microsoft to smaller AI colocation players — using a mass-tort playbook once aimed at PFAS and MTBE.

Alphabet, Amazon and Meta posted negative free cash flow in Q3 2026 even as combined hyperscaler capex approached $750B — here is what the earnings-week reaction means for data center buyers.

North American data center vacancy fell to a record-low 1.4% in H1 2026 even as construction hit 7,481 MW — leaving buyers roughly six months of leasable supply.

Texas has paused new ERCOT grid connections while auditing a 474 GW interconnection queue — BloombergNEF warns the freeze could delay $15 billion in data center capacity.

JLL puts the wait for a 100MW connection in Northern Virginia at 7 years. Here is the market-by-market power data buyers need before signing a site.

Hyperscalers now drive 90% of U.S. clean-power PPA volume, and PJM solar contracts have climbed to $75–83/MWh. Here’s what the 2026 power procurement squeeze means for data center buyers.