Artificial Intelligence
Los Angeles Fire Rebuild Puts AI Plan Check to the Test as Developers Automate the Front End
The rebuilding of Los Angeles neighborhoods destroyed in the January 2025 wildfires has become Southern California's largest live test of AI in the...
Southern California AI Tenants Occupy 2.7MM SQFT as Defense Demand Pushes Orange County Into Industrial, JLL Finds
A 2026 JLL study finds artificial intelligence companies occupy 2.1 million square feet in Los Angeles and Orange County and another 600,000 in...
Kabani Hotel Group CEO Urges Owners to Tighten Risk Controls as 7% Debt, AI and Insurance Costs Mount
Kabani Hotel Group founder Ahmed Kabani is urging hotel owners to tighten risk controls while markets still feel calm, and his seven-point checklist,...
UCLA Researchers Warn AI Data-Center Debt Could Shake the Broader Economy
In their September 2026 Economic Letter, UCLA Anderson Forecast and Ziman Center researchers warn that the heavily leveraged financing behind the national AI...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
San Diego Leads Southern California’s Uneven AI Adoption as Business Use Tops 33%
Federal survey data reveal a widening gap inside Southern California, where San Diego businesses have raced past the national AI-adoption rate while Los...
Southern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as CBRE Reports Record 1.4% Vacancy
Even as a CBRE webinar detailed record-low vacancy and an unprecedented scramble for computing capacity across the country's primary data center markets, Southern...
LA and San Diego Anchor Southern California Tech Talent as AI Realignment Sorts the Region
Southern California's tech talent markets diverged sharply in CBRE's latest rankings, with Los Angeles-Orange County and San Diego holding places in the upper...
Southern California Trails Data Center Boom as Capacity Flows to Arizona and Texas
Southern California ranks among the smallest data center markets in the western United States at roughly 355 megawatts, trailing neighboring Phoenix and Las...
Southern California’s 5 GW Data Center Wave Meets Record Power Rates and a Ballot-Box Ban
While PG&E openly courts AI data centers in the north, Southern California Edison is quietly holding roughly 5 gigawatts of data center load...
Brokers Turn to Autonomous AI Agents to Automate Rent Comp Tracking
Commercial real estate brokers are increasingly handing rote market research to autonomous AI agents that assemble proprietary comp databases and monitor rival properties...
San Diego VC Funding Nears $5B by Midyear as AI Overtakes Life Sciences in Record 2026 Pace
Venture capital is flooding into San Diego startups at a record clip in 2026, but the money is chasing a different kind of...
