Missouri: TIME TO UPDATE THE MAP
Two hyperscale data center campuses will bring tens of billions of dollars in investment to rural Montgomery County.
Adam Bruns
Editor in Chief of Site Selection Magazine
Adam Bruns is editor in chief and head of publications for Site Selection magazine, where he served as managing editor from February 2002 until fall 2023. In the course of reporting hundreds of stories for Site Selection, Adam has visited companies and communities around the globe. A St. Louis native who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, Adam is a 1986 alumnus of Knox College, and resided in Chicago; Midcoast Maine; Savannah, Georgia; and Lexington, Kentucky, before settling in Greater Atlanta with his wife and daughter.
e-mail: Adam.Bruns@conway.com
Articles By This Author
TEXASEDCONNECTION INTELLIGENCE REPORT: Where Traditional Industry Meets Tomorrow’s Economy
Location intelligence indicates the coalition of small and medium-sized towns that comprise the TexasEDConnection are intelligent places to be.
WORKFORCE HOUSING EXTRA: Big Issues Require Big Solutions
At midnight on July 11, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law. “By removing unnecessary regulatory barriers and improving the processes that govern housing development, this new law creates stronger conditions for residential construction and represents a significant victory for LBM dealers and the customers they serve,” said National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association President and CEO Jonathan Paine.
WORKFORCE HOUSING: Where and When Will Attainable Housing Materialize?
Insights are given on where and when attainable housing will materialize.
DATA CENTERS EXTRA: Snapshots from the Field
Resonating with Site Selection’s findings that Texas leads all states in data center projects and project-affiliated job creation since January 2024, Cushman & Wakefield’s 2026 Global Data Center Market Comparison report named Dallas the No. 1 primary data center market in the world, followed by Atlanta (2), Virginia (3), Columbus (4) and Johor, Malaysia (5).
Bonus Insights into the U.S.-Mexico Border Corridor from Avison Young
In conjunction with Site Selection’s July 2026 publication of “The Border Is Not One Market” by Avison Young Senior Director, Industrial Corporate Services Carl Quesinberry, Editor in Chief Adam Bruns spoke in June with Quesinberry and Avison Young National Industrial Market Intelligence Director Peter Kroner about the location and policy dynamics influencing location decisions along the border corridor.
SEMICONDUCTORS: The Substrata Of the AI Build-Out
One tech company’s recent investments are fortifying Europe’s “technological sovereignty.”
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING: Could Aviation Be Where AI Takes Manufacturing To the Stratosphere?
Is AI taking manufacturing to the stratosphere?
Maine: SHUTDOWN 2.0: Mill Redevelopment Project Stymied by Data Center Resistance
The promising redevelopment of a shuttered paper mill is stymied by data center opposition.
EDITOR ’S VIEW: The Circle Of Lifelong Learning
As spring inched toward summer this year, milestones kept accumulating. Births, deaths, graduations, anniversaries of events resounding with joy or grief, all piling up like the mountain of prayer stones left at the Iron Cross along the French way of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.