Big Tech Is Buying Up America’s Land—and Home Builders Can’t Compete – WSJ

Tech giants including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are aggressively purchasing land in Northern Virginia for data center construction, outbidding home builders and driving up land prices to unprecedented levels. The article details how this land rush is worsening America's housing shortage, with examples like Amazon paying $700 million for a Prince William County site that previously sold for $50 million. Community resistance is growing as residents and local leaders push back against further land sales, preferring housing development over data center expansion in a region already short more than 75,000 homes.