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Capital Markets

CRE capital flows, fund raises, M&A, and financing events, read for what they signal about asset pricing and deployment.

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NOV 7, 20268 MIN READ4 SOURCES

Brookfield’s Q3: Real Estate Raised $900 Million, Then Bought Into Data Centers

Brookfield Asset Management furnished its third quarter results to the SEC on November 6: $25 billion raised in the quarter and $123 billion year to date. Its real estate strategies raised $900 million of that, about 3.6 percent, and the one new real estate commitment it highlighted was a stake in a U.S. hyperscale data center developer.

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CoStar Is Buying Vexcel for $730M to Read Buildings From the Air

CoStar Group signed a merger agreement on October 27, 2026 to acquire Vexcel Group, an aerial imagery and geospatial data company, for about $730 million in cash. CoStar filed the agreement with the SEC on a Form 8-K the same day. Vexcel had more than $140 million of trailing revenue, and CoStar says it plans to use AI to extract hundreds of data fields per property from the imagery.

OCT 28, 20267 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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CBRE Buys Onnec for $610M to Wire Data Center Racks

CBRE Group said on October 20, 2026 that it agreed to buy Onnec Group, a London data center infrastructure services firm, for £460 million (about $610 million) in cash plus an earnout of up to £300 million (about $400 million). Onnec designs, installs and maintains network, fiber and data center infrastructure for hyperscalers in Europe and Asia Pacific.

OCT 21, 20266 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Google Pays Full Cost for West Memphis Data Center Power

Entergy Arkansas said on October 19, 2026 that Google will fund about $600 million of new infrastructure and a 440 megawatt solar purchase agreement to serve a second phase of its West Memphis data center campus, under a 20-year contract that goes to the Arkansas Public Service Commission for approval.

OCT 20, 20267 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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ICON Raises $200M Series D to Build Its Titan Printers

ICON, the Austin construction 3D printing company, announced a $200 million Series D on October 13, 2026, co-led by Baillie Gifford and funds managed by BlackRock. The money goes to manufacturing Titan, a multi-story printing system sold to outside builders. ICON’s SEC Form D, filed in August, shows how much of the round had closed by then.

OCT 17, 20266 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Prologis Q3: 5.8 GW of Data Center Power, 1.7 GW Secured

Prologis reported third quarter 2026 results on October 15. Its filed supplemental puts the data center power pipeline at 5.8 gigawatts, of which 1.7 gigawatts is secured, and data center projects under development at $2,588 million of expected investment, all leased. It started no new data centers in the quarter.

OCT 16, 20267 MIN READ6 SOURCES

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An Unnamed AI Lab Commits to Lease Cipher’s Barber Lake Data Center From Year 11

Cipher Digital said on September 25, 2026 that a leading AI lab it does not name made a binding commitment to lease its Barber Lake data center in Colorado City, Texas for ten years after Fluidstack’s ten-year lease ends. Cipher puts the added contracted revenue at about $5.2 billion. The same filing moves delivery into phases and sets who pays for cost overruns.

OCT 13, 20268 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Seven Companies Took 58% of Proptech Funding in the Third Quarter, CRETI Reports

CRETI, a real estate technology research group, reported on October 5, 2026 that proptech companies raised about $2.21 billion in the third quarter and that the seven largest financings took about $1.28 billion of it. The seven are EliseAI, Kahua, Invenergy, Buildots, TerraFirma, ICON and Habitat. The company releases PSV checked do not match the tally on every detail.

OCT 12, 20268 MIN READ6 SOURCES

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Digital Realty Borrows €1 Billion at 5.125% and CHF 510 Million at Under 2.5%

Digital Realty closed €1 billion of 5.125 percent guaranteed notes due 2036 on October 9, 2026, according to a Form 8-K filed the same day. Three days earlier it closed CHF 510 million of Swiss franc notes in three series at coupons of 1.6803 to 2.4150 percent. Its unsecured notes averaged 2.60 percent at June 30.

OCT 10, 20268 MIN READ6 SOURCES

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Applied Digital Signs a 1,200 MW Gas Power Deal With a Company Its CEO Runs

Applied Digital’s Form 10-Q, filed October 7, discloses a 15-year power purchase agreement signed October 4 for capacity and energy from a roughly 1,200 megawatt gas-fired plant that Base Electron plans to build in Center, North Dakota, for the Polaris Forge 3 data center campus. The filing says Base Electron is owned and managed by Applied Digital officers and directors, and that Applied Digital’s chief executive is also Base Electron’s.

OCT 9, 20269 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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LS Power Closes a $6 Billion Fund and Points $1.7 Billion at Gas Plants in PJM and Texas

LS Power said on October 6 that its sixth flagship fund closed with about $6 billion of commitments against a $4 billion target. About $1.7 billion is already committed to buying gas-fired plants from Constellation in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Texas. Constellation’s filings price those sales at $5.86 billion in total. The fund release never mentions data centers. An earlier LS Power release does.

OCT 7, 20268 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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General Catalyst and Koch Put $2 Billion Into Flex’s Data Center Power Spin-Off at a $37.5 Billion Value

Flex filed a Form 8-K on October 5 for an agreement signed October 2: investors led by General Catalyst will buy $2.0 billion of convertible preferred stock in Axiom, the data center power and cooling business Flex plans to spin off in early 2027. Flex’s release puts Axiom’s initial enterprise value at $37.5 billion. The money helps pay for EPC Power.

OCT 6, 20269 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Amazon’s Built Together: $1 Billion for Data Center Towns and No More Government NDAs

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman announced on October 2 a written Amazon Data Center Commitment and Built Together, a program that adds more than $1 billion over five years for U.S. communities that host its data centers. The tenets include no nondisclosure agreements with government agencies, Tier 4 backup generators at new sites and annual energy and water reporting.

OCT 3, 20267 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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Ken Griffin’s $3 Billion Gift Puts a Carnegie Mellon AI-Era Campus in Miami’s Wynwood

Carnegie Mellon University announced a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder Ken Griffin on September 30, including $2 billion to launch CMU Miami on a campus of more than 35 acres in Wynwood. CMU says construction is slated to begin in 2027, pending regulatory approvals, for a campus built around AI-era research, industry labs and venture studios.

OCT 1, 20266 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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EliseAI Raises $350 Million to Push AI Deeper Into Apartment Operations

EliseAI, which sells AI agents for apartment leasing, resident service, maintenance and renewals, raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation on September 29, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan participating. It says the money goes to automating more of its customers’ operations, weeks after launching an agent that can act anywhere in its platform.

SEP 30, 20267 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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HouseCanary’s Chapter 11 and the AI Valuation Vendor Question

HouseCanary, the AI valuation and property data company whose customers include mortgage lenders, government-sponsored enterprises and single-family rental REIT operators, filed Chapter 11 in New Jersey on September 22, the day its lender had set to auction its operating assets. The court has approved $3 million of interim financing. The filings show a vendor whose model is pledged to its financiers.

SEP 27, 20269 MIN READ8 SOURCES

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Oracle’s Force Majeure Notice on Project Jupiter

Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to Stack Infrastructure, the developer of Project Jupiter in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, that reportedly lets it defer some rent for up to three years if the campus’s power is late. Oracle’s own July release already conditioned its commitments on a pipeline and air permit that remain unresolved.

SEP 26, 20269 MIN READ6 SOURCES

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Brookings Paper Puts the AI Build-Out at $10.3 Trillion

A Brookings Papers on Economic Activity conference draft by Columbia real estate professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, posted September 23 for presentation September 25, projects $10.3 trillion of U.S. AI infrastructure investment from 2025 to 2032, about 3.63 percent of GDP a year, and warns that the financing is moving into leases, joint ventures and special-purpose vehicles that are hard to see.

SEP 24, 202610 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Meta Expands Its Eagle Mountain Data Center in Utah

On September 14, 2026 Meta said the Eagle Mountain Data Center is growing, bringing its total investment in Utah to more than $3 billion. Eagle Mountain City published its own record the same day. Together they itemize what a hyperscale campus expansion costs a town and what the town gets, in named dollar figures, but neither states the expansion’s megawatts, square footage or delivery date.

SEP 20, 20269 MIN READ2 SOURCES

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SB Energy’s IPO Filing Put OpenAI’s Data Center Leases on the Record

SB Energy, SoftBank’s AI data center and power developer, filed its S-1 on September 1 and added the leases themselves on September 4. It reports about $430 billion of data center backlog across 8.8 GW-IT of signed leases and no data center capacity in operation, with OpenAI the tenant on all but 50 MW. PSV read the prospectus and the filed leases the way a lender would.

SEP 14, 202610 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Procore Paid $845 Million to See the Jobsite

Procore closed its acquisition of DroneDeploy on September 9, forty-four days after signing, for approximately $845 million in cash. The construction software company that holds the RFIs, submittals and inspections now owns the drone and camera record of the physical build too, and it paid with $950 million of zero-coupon convertible notes. PSV read the three 8-Ks and Procore’s own announcement.

SEP 13, 202611 MIN READ7 SOURCES

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SpaceX’s Terafab Suit Tests What a Texas Incentive File Keeps Secret

SpaceX has sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Grimes County to stop the county releasing records behind the incentives for Terafab, its planned chip plant, including its tax abatement application. Much of the deal is already public: eight state JETI filings with an estimated $1.66 billion in school tax benefit, and county agreements that set its county tax payments at $20 million a year for a decade, then cap them there through 2061.

SEP 11, 202614 MIN READ13 SOURCES

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CenterPoint Wrote Data Centers Into Its Covenants

On September 9, 2026 CenterPoint Energy and three subsidiaries replaced four revolving credit facilities with new ones totaling $4.6 billion. The new agreements add a defined term the December 2022 versions did not contain anywhere: Data Center Development Indebtedness, which is subtracted from the debt the banks measure in the leverage covenant. The definition names synthetic leases and built to suit lease financings.

SEP 9, 20268 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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PJM’s Firm Power Exemption Is a 10 Year Commitment

PJM told this desk’s readers in July what its Board had directed. The filings themselves are now at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in dockets ER26-3380-000 and ER26-3515-000, and the comment window closed on September 3. They contain terms the Board letter never stated, and the most consequential one is what a site has to promise to keep firm power.

SEP 7, 202614 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Wisconsin Made Its 100 Megawatt Customers Sign for the Power

WEC Energy Group filed a Form 8-K on September 4 attaching the investor deck that finally puts numbers on Wisconsin’s Very Large Customer tariff. The Public Service Commission approved it in docket 6630-TE-113 and made it mandatory for any customer with 100 megawatts or more of annual demand. WEC now forecasts 3.9 gigawatts of new electric demand through 2030, and two data center campuses are all of it.

SEP 6, 202616 MIN READ6 SOURCES

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Flex Agreed to Pay $4.4 Billion for the 800 Volt Power Stack

Flex filed a Form 8-K on September 4 disclosing a Stock Purchase Agreement signed the day before: $4.4 billion in cash for EPC Power, a California maker of power conversion systems engineered for 800 volt DC data center architectures. The buyer says the platform consolidates functions traditionally provided by UPS systems and AC power distribution. That is a change to the electrical room, not only to a supplier list.

SEP 5, 202613 MIN READ7 SOURCES

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Vertiv Agreed to Pay $1.45 Billion for the Power Blueprint

Vertiv Holdings Co filed an 8-K on Wednesday disclosing that its Vertiv Corporation subsidiary agreed on September 1 to acquire Utility Innovation Holdings, Inc., which operates as UtilityInnovation Group, for approximately $1.45 billion in cash at closing plus up to $1.15 billion more if earnout targets are met. UIG designs microgrids and behind-the-meter power architecture for data centers. Vertiv says the point is time to power. PSV read the filing and the merger agreement behind it.

SEP 2, 202613 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Google Signed for 396 Megawatts Before It Named a Building

Fervo Energy filed an 8-K on Tuesday morning disclosing that a wholly owned subsidiary signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with Google Energy for 396 megawatts of enhanced geothermal capacity at Cape Station in Beaver County, Utah, plus an option that would take the total to roughly 950 megawatts. Fervo calls the power a building block for a potential Utah data center. No building has been announced. PSV read the filing and the statute behind it.

SEP 1, 202613 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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SLB Agreed to Pay $4.1 Billion for the Cooling Loop

SLB furnished an 8-K on Monday morning announcing an agreement to buy Kelvion, a German thermal management and heat exchange manufacturer, for approximately $3.4 billion in cash plus roughly $0.7 billion of assumed debt. Apollo, the seller, headlines the same deal at $4.1 billion. An oilfield services company is buying the heat rejection layer of the AI buildout. PSV read both records.

AUG 31, 202612 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Autodesk Paid $3.53 Billion to Own the Work Order

Autodesk closed its acquisition of MaintainX on August 3 and filed the price and the debt behind it on August 28. The company that sells the drawings for a building now sells the maintenance record too, and its Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations family just crossed half of quarterly revenue. PSV read the merger 8-K, the earnings release and the 10-Q.

AUG 30, 202612 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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IREN Wrote Off $638.8M to Turn Mining Halls Into AI Data Centers

IREN Limited reported FY26 results on August 27 and filed its annual report the same day. Revenue rose to $707.0 million and the company still booked a $702.6 million net loss, because $638.8 million of impairment came out of retrofitting air-cooled mining halls into liquid-cooled AI capacity. PSV read both records. The conversion cost, and the spread on who signs the contract, are the real estate story.

AUG 28, 202610 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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NVIDIA Backstopped a 20-Year Lease. CRE Has a Name for That.

NVIDIA filed a Form 8-K on August 17 disclosing multiple residual value guaranties behind leases covering approximately 4.25 gigawatts of IT load at the PORTS Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio. SB Energy will build, own and operate the campus, an affiliate of OpenAI Group PBC is the tenant on a 20-year lease, and NVIDIA’s aggregate payment obligation is cumulatively capped at $105 billion.

AUG 23, 202611 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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CoStar Closed on Zonda. The Number That Matters Isn’t $800M.

CoStar Group completed its $800 million all-cash acquisition of Zonda on August 21 and furnished the press release to the SEC the same day on a Form 8-K. Zonda brings a lot-level new home construction database, homebuilder software, more than 3,000 customers, and the NewHomeSource.com and Livabl marketplaces. In 2025 it generated approximately $170 million of revenue at a 23 percent Adjusted EBITDA margin, the company says.

AUG 22, 202610 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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Riot’s $573M Bridge Matures Before the Rent Starts

Riot Platforms filed a Form 8-K on August 14 reporting that a project subsidiary closed a senior secured delayed-draw term loan of up to $573.0 million, with Morgan Stanley Senior Funding as administrative agent, to buy long-lead equipment for the 191 critical IT megawatt data center at its Rockdale campus. The loans mature December 31, 2026. The first megawatts are not due to energize until December 2027.

AUG 15, 202615 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Fermi’s 2.6 GW Plant Is Now a Ground Sublease

Fermi filed its second quarter Form 8-K on August 13 and furnished two exhibits describing the same move. A third party will finance, construct, own and operate roughly 2.6 GW of generation at Project Matador under a long-term ground sublease, and Fermi commits no capital and issues no debt for the plant. The power plant became a real estate instrument.

AUG 14, 202614 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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NVIDIA’s $500B: Compute Joins the Real Asset Stack

NVIDIA said on August 10 that it signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent compute financing platforms and mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital. Read the About sections of that same release and the CRE fact is already on the page: three of the six describe real estate as a core business, and one of them calls itself the world’s largest alternative asset manager.

AUG 12, 202612 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Fermi’s $6.5B Lease: The Guarantee Line Vanished

Fermi Inc. said on August 10 that it executed its first binding customer lease at Project Matador in Carson County, Texas: 222 MW of total facility power to TensorWave, at approximately $6.5 billion of contracted revenue over an initial 15-year term. The wire then carried a corrected version of the same release. The sentence about a guarantee from one of the global leaders in AI is not in it.

AUG 11, 202613 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Prologis’ $18.8B SEGRO Deal: Power Is the Asset

Prologis agreed on August 4 to acquire SEGRO plc in a recommended share offer with a partial cash alternative, valuing SEGRO at approximately $18.8 billion. The press release sells European scale: 368 million square feet and a 126 percent larger European land bank. The Rule 2.7 announcement filed with the SEC names the thing scale does not describe, which is 2.5 GVA of power.

AUG 10, 202613 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Hadrian’s $1.37B Raise: One Building Is 77% of It

Hadrian said on August 6 that it raised $1.37 billion at a $7.87 billion valuation to build more highly automated factories, with JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group as anchor co-lead. The company puts its footprint at just under 3 million square feet across four sites. Its own earlier release shows that 2.2 million of that is a single repurposed railcar plant in rural Alabama.

AUG 9, 202611 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Alpaca’s $223M Close: The AI Stack Was the Pitch

Alpaca Real Estate said on August 6 that it held the final close of its debut fund at approximately $223 million, inclusive of roughly $21 million of co-investments, about 18 months after the first close. Public pensions, foundations and RIAs underwrote a first-time manager whose stated differentiator is a proprietary AI platform. The interesting number is not the fund size.

AUG 7, 202610 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Brookfield’s Record $77B Quarter: Real Estate Took 5.6 Percent

Brookfield Asset Management furnished its second quarter results to the SEC on August 6, reporting a record $77 billion raised in the quarter and more than $1 trillion of assets under management. Read the segment lines and the story changes. Real estate strategies took $4.3 billion of that, roughly 5.6 percent, while credit took $51 billion and AI infrastructure got a fund of its own.

AUG 6, 202610 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Apollo’s $1.02B Into Starwood’s REIT: The CRE Read

Starwood Real Estate Income Trust told the SEC on August 4 that it closed a joint venture with Apollo the day before, taking a $1.02 billion investment for 41.5 percent of a vehicle holding roughly 120 of its affordable housing properties. The proceeds repay a credit facility. Read past the equity headline and the structure looks like something else.

AUG 5, 202612 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Meta, BlackRock, and the $13B Residual Value Guarantee

Meta and BlackRock will co-develop a roughly $14 billion, 1 gigawatt data center campus in El Paso, with BlackRock funds owning 80 percent and Meta 20. Meta’s own quarterly filing adds the part the press release does not lead with: each lease runs an initial four-year term, and Meta backs the campus with residual value guarantees of approximately $13 billion.

AUG 4, 20269 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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JPMorganChase Pledges $750B to Housing: The CRE Read

The nation’s largest multifamily lender said on August 3 that it intends to deploy more than $750 billion through 2035 to increase housing supply and support homeownership, an increase of more than $200 billion over the prior decade. The pledge covers financing for 1,000,000 affordable units and 500,000 homebuyers. It also carries a condition most coverage will skip.

AUG 3, 202612 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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DOE Leases Paducah for a $100B AI Campus: The CRE Read

The Department of Energy said on July 29 that it selected Brookfield to lease land and develop a data center campus at its Paducah Site in western Kentucky, and selected NextEra Energy to build and own the power behind it. The partners put the privately funded investment above $100 billion, with up to 1.8 gigawatts of utility capacity and more than 1.2 gigawatts of compute. No tenant has been named.

AUG 2, 202612 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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Amazon Ran Free Cash Flow Negative to Build AI: The CRE Read

Amazon reported second quarter results on July 30 and filed its Form 10-Q on July 31. Net sales were $200.6 billion, up 20 percent, and AWS grew 37 percent, its fastest in 18 quarters. The number that matters to real estate sits lower in the release: trailing twelve month free cash flow swung to an outflow of $7.6 billion, and Amazon attributes the swing to artificial intelligence.

AUG 1, 202612 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Microsoft Says Its Data Centers Last 25 Years: The CRE Read

On its July 29 earnings call, Microsoft told investors it is extending the estimated useful lives of its datacenters and office buildings from 15 years to 25 years, effective with fiscal 2027, and that more of its future datacenter leases will therefore shift from finance leases to operating leases. The reported capital expenditure number falls to about $175 billion. The commitment behind it does not.

JUL 31, 202611 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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CBRE’s Infrastructure Line Outgrew Leasing: The CRE Read

CBRE reported second quarter revenue of $11.2 billion on July 29, up 15.5 percent, and raised its 2026 core EPS outlook to $7.80 to $7.90. Buried in the segment detail is the number that matters to operators: revenue from critical infrastructure services reached $676 million, up from $403 million a year earlier, and that one line added more new revenue in the quarter than global leasing did.

JUL 30, 20269 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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OpenAI’s $20B Project Camellia: The CRE Read on an Unfiled Entitlement

Effingham County, Georgia announced on July 22 that OpenAI will build a $20 billion, 3.2 gigawatt campus inside the Savannah Gateway Industrial Hub. Five days later the county published a second statement: the only document it has received is a Development of Regional Impact cover page, no completed application has been submitted, and the site plan circulating online is a blank state template someone filled in.

JUL 28, 20269 MIN READ5 SOURCES

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Brookfield Buys Aypa for $7B: The CRE Read on AI Power

Brookfield said on July 22 that it agreed to acquire Aypa Power, the largest standalone battery storage developer in North America, from Blackstone Energy Transition Partners for roughly $7 billion enterprise value and $3 billion of equity. Aypa brings about 6.5 GW operating and contracted, 95 percent of it under contracts averaging 17 years, plus a pipeline above 20 GW. For real estate, the binding constraint on AI has moved from land to electrons.

JUL 25, 20269 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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Alphabet Raises AI Spend to $205B: The CRE Read on the Capex Floor

Alphabet reported second-quarter results on July 22 and told investors it now expects to spend $195 billion to $205 billion on capital expenditures this year, up from $180 billion to $190 billion. Filed quarterly capex hit a record $44.9 billion, roughly double a year earlier, and free cash flow turned negative. Management says about 40 percent of the spend goes to data centers and networking. For real estate, that number is the demand floor under the entire data center thesis.

JUL 24, 20268 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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Fifth Wall Backs Atoms: Why the Biggest Proptech Fund Just Bet on Robots as Tenants

Travis Kalanick’s Atoms announced a $1.7 billion equity round on July 22, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board and Bain Capital, Uber, and Fifth Wall participating. Fifth Wall’s check has been reported at $135 million, which would be the real estate fund’s largest single investment. The read that matters for CRE: physical AI treats real estate as its storage layer, and the tenants it creates are robots.

JUL 23, 20267 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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SwiftConnect Buys HID SAFE: The CRE Read on Access Governance

SwiftConnect said on July 22 it acquired HID’s Workforce Business Unit, including HID SAFE, the physical identity and access management suite, and is folding it into its cloud AccessCloud platform. HID keeps a minority, non-controlling stake, and financial terms were not disclosed. For real estate, the deal pushes building access toward one system that both credentials people and governs who is allowed where, and revokes that access automatically when roles change.

JUL 23, 20267 MIN READ2 SOURCES

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Hut 8’s $9.8B Beacon Point Lease: The CRE Read on a Fully Leased AI Campus

Hut 8 said on July 20 it signed a second 15-year lease at its Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas, a 352 megawatt deal with a base-term contract value of $9.8 billion. The lease fully commercializes the one-gigawatt campus, doubling the tenant’s contracted capacity to 704 megawatts. For real estate, the detail that matters is the structure: a triple-net, take-or-pay lease to a single investment-grade tenant, energizing in 2027.

JUL 22, 20267 MIN READ2 SOURCES

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IREN Signed $2.8B in AI Contracts. The CRE Read on a New Data Center Capital Stack

IREN Limited said on July 20 it signed $2.8 billion in new multi-year cloud contracts with leading AI developers, raising its 2026 AI Cloud run-rate revenue target above $4 billion. The detail that matters for real estate is how it is funded: customer prepayments covering roughly 45 percent of the associated GPU capital, on top of equipment-backed financing. The AI data center is being underwritten on contracted cash flow, not speculation.

JUL 21, 20266 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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BlackRock and ACS Launch Coravel: The CRE Read on a 1.7 GW Data Center Bet

ACS Group and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners launched Coravel on July 15, a 50-50 joint venture that turns their data center development platform into an operating brand with an initial 1.7 gigawatt portfolio and a signed long-term hyperscale lease at a Dallas-Fort Worth campus. For commercial real estate, it is another sign that the largest infrastructure capital pools are building the AI buildout as a real estate business.

JUL 20, 20266 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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Csquare Raised $1.05B. The Data Center Market Is Asking for Proof.

Brookfield-backed Csquare priced its initial public offering at $21 a share, below its marketed $23 to $27 range, raising $1.05 billion rather than the $1.35 billion implied at the top end. The result does not erase demand for digital infrastructure. It does put a sharper public-market price on leverage, delivery, and the difference between a data center story and a data center cash flow.

JUL 18, 20266 MIN READ3 SOURCES

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TSMC Lifts Arizona to $265 Billion: The CRE Read

TSMC used its record second quarter to commit another $100 billion to Arizona, lifting its total state investment to $265 billion across a planned ten fabs, two advanced packaging plants, and a research center. The expansion is driven by demand for AI chips, and for commercial real estate it concentrates one of the country’s largest advanced-manufacturing buildouts in a single Phoenix submarket.

JUL 18, 20266 MIN READ4 SOURCES

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CRE PROPTECH NEWS

RealPage Acquires Cherre: The CRE Data Consolidation Read

RealPage says it has acquired Cherre, the data intelligence platform institutional owners use to resolve more than 4 billion entities across roughly $4 trillion in real assets. Terms were not disclosed. The companies promise operational independence and an open platform. For operators, the durable question is contractual: who now owns the pipes your portfolio data runs through, and on what terms.

JUL 15, 20266 MIN READ2 SOURCES

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CRE CAPITAL NEWS

Hines Buys 405 Colorado at $734 a Foot: The Trophy-Office Signal

Hines Global Income Trust paid about $151 million for a fully leased Class AA Austin tower and paired it with grocery-anchored retail in Chicago. The bid is back for one narrow profile of office. The discipline is knowing whether your asset fits it.

JUL 14, 20266 MIN READ2 SOURCES

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CRE AI NEWS

Meta’s $50B Hyperion Expansion: The CRE Read on a 5 GW Campus

Meta says its Richland Parish campus will reach about 10 million square feet and 5 gigawatts, with more than $50 billion committed. The durable CRE signal is what a commitment this size does to land, power, housing, and industrial demand around it, and which documents actually move value.

JUL 14, 20266 MIN READ2 SOURCES

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CRE AI NEWS

Guthrie AI’s $4M Seed: The CRE Implication for Bid Coordination

Guthrie AI says its new funding will expand a hybrid bid-assistant program for glazing contractors. For developers and owners, the useful signal is not autonomous pricing. It is faster, more visible preparation of the bid package before an estimator makes the call.

JUL 13, 20266 MIN READ3 SOURCES