It's longer-term trends — from a variety of measures — that show what's really going on.

What if you could store and deliver goods as easily as data? Amazon, Walmart and others are using AI and robotics to transform everything from appliance shopping to grocery delivery. Welcome to the physical cloud

Companies are dealing with a deluge of data, but only necessary data should be collected and, importantly, it needs to be analyzed in order to be useful.

Data science that encompasses analytically rigorous predictive models has the ability to disrupt the conventional location decision process.

By effectively embracing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the manufacturing sector can analyze processes and identify optimization possibilities.

Technology’s radical transformations of industry are changing not only company operations but also how sites are selected.

Labor market information is critical, but companies must know the uses and limitations of such data in order to select the optimal location for success.

Opportunities and challenges present themselves in harnessing the analytical power of internal and external data.

We don’t yet know where it will end up, but Amazon HQ2 is going to vastly change the physical, societal, and economic landscape of the chosen site. For the candidate cities, Amazon itself, and other local economic interests, the impact of HQ2 will be significant.

Investors, operators, and end-users alike must identify true costs and investigate available options before committing to a new or existing strategy in the rapidly evolving data center industry.

How does an experienced data center developer meet the challenges of today’s diverse design and construction requirements?

Large content enterprise users are building data center complexes around the world, with nearly half in the U.S., and many in secondary markets.

A former mill town on the Mississippi River is home to an insurer that continues to expand and is working on attracting data-driven industry with its pool of college-educated workers.

Supply chain mapping, data on autonomous fleets, and low-cost renewable energy can all be found in Iowa…surprised? You shouldn’t be.

With new applications for leading-edge technologies seemingly being developed on an almost daily basis, the eventual implications for business and consumers, and on aspects of daily living, are only just beginning to be understood.

Cities are shaping the story of America. The great success we have seen in our nation’s cities is clear — data shapes the narrative.

OKI Data Americas, a subsidiary of the Japan-based OKI Data Corporation, will establish a new operations hub in Irving, Texas. The facility will support the company’s North American operations.

FICO, a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions, has established an operations center in Bozeman, Montana. The company plans for further growth in the region.

The DOT has awarded a grant to Columbus, Ohio, so that the city can employ numerous “smart mobility” technologies that will help improve citizens’ lives, with the added benefit of showcasing the city to the tech community.

The billionaire developer Ross Perot Jr. describes data centers as the modern equivalent of America’s giant factories in the early 20th century. And here in the sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth region, they seem to be spreading as fast as springtime wildflowers.

Iron Mountain Information Management, a subsidiary of Iron Mountain Incorporated, the data storage and information management company, is planning to make significant investments and create highly skilled jobs in Prince William County, with the development of a new data center campus on 83 acres in Manassas, Virginia.

As industrial organizations search for ways to reduce cost and improve efficiencies, energy invariably winds up in the crosshairs.

A comprehensive location strategy looks beyond the financial and real estate aspects of a community and carefully identifies characteristics that are not found in data sets, culminating in a project agreement that places emphasis on “community fit” and “service after sale” in addition to incentive programming.

Supply chain management is no longer a cost center for business. To many manufacturing companies, it is now considered the most important part of the business.

Judging by the data and the trends, 2014 is shaping up to be the sort of year North American manufacturers can be grateful for.

Digging through layers of information on the national and then local level is an arduous task for site selectors, but one that has been made easier through the use of GIS tools.

Businesses have traditionally approached energy consumption as a fixed overhead, but the real opportunities lie in approaching it as a variable cost that can be tightly controlled with advanced energy-management systems to increase the competitiveness and effectiveness of operations and the business as a whole.

Datalogix, a data company connecting digital advertising to offline sales, plans a 20,000-square-foot expansion and renovation of its Westminster, Colorado headquarters.

The use of both quantitative and qualitative metrics allows facility managers to make better use of their real estate footprints, positively affecting their businesses and their employees.

Ipreo Holdings, a global company that provides market intelligence, data and technology solutions to capital markets and corporate professionals around the world, will invest $3 million to establish a business center in Raleigh, North Carolina, with plans to generate 250 new jobs in Wake County by the end of 2017.

John Boyd Jr., Principal of the Boyd Company Inc., explains the role of data security when a company decides the location of its headquarters.