Wall Street Journal: Big Tech Is Buying Up America’s Land—and Home Builders Can’t Compete

WSJ reports on resistance to more land sales in Northern Virginia as data center developers outbid home builders (“They’d rather have homes than data,” said a former Prince William supervisor). Elena Schlossberg is featured in a photo caption as a Northern Virginia homeowner who has opposed many data center projects. Paywalled; see the original for the full story.

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Originally published 2026-02-18 at https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/data-center-land-deals-housing-shortage-81ea6e09. Summary written for this site from the original; full text at the source.


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