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For decades, property prices in Japan barely budged and renters could expect their costs to never rise. That era is now over. Read more: bloom.bg/4iDDBWD 📷: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg

At Baltimore’s Peale Museum, 14 different visions for tearing down the Jones Falls Expressway — and restoring the Jones Falls River bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

A virtual-only school empire reaps millions of tax dollars despite truant students and failing schools. Stride, the nation’s largest operator of virtual public schools, has collected more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money in Texas alone. Read more: bloom.bg/47Rw4P4 📷: Jake Dockins for Bloomberg Businessweek

Swapping thirsty fairways for server farms would save water and create jobs, backers of the proposed Los Angeles Recreation and Technology Park say. Read more: bloom.bg/4z3kxY0 📷: Ramus Development

Out of dozens of cities with ballot measures focused on AI infrastructure, only one sided with data center developers. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

For decades, property prices in Japan barely budged and renters could expect their costs to never rise. That era is now over bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Out of dozens of cities with ballot measures focused on AI infrastructure, only one sided with data center developers. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

For decades, property prices in Japan barely budged and renters could expect their costs to never rise. That era is now over bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Out of dozens of cities with ballot measures focused on AI infrastructure, only one sided with data center developers. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Sub-Saharan Africa is set to host five megacities by 2050 and Lagos is likely to be overtaken by Angola’s Luanda as the continent’s biggest metropolis. Read more: bloom.bg/4yVEnnW 📷: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

Sports venues are rethinking what a comfortable restroom experience looks like for women fans as well as athletes. Read more: bloom.bg/47RLzqf 📷: Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images

Voters across the US approved at least $67 billion of state and local government bond sales during Tuesday’s election, according to preliminary vote tallies of S&P Global Market Intelligence data analyzed by Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Sports venues are rethinking what a comfortable restroom experience looks like for women fans as well as athletes bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Florida voters passed sweeping property tax cuts in Tuesday’s election, a move that will gut local government funding. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

TSMC’s $265 billion buildout in Arizona – the biggest foreign investment in US history – has sparked a real estate boom in the Phoenix suburbs bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Voters across the US approved at least $67 billion of state and local government bond sales during Tuesday’s election, according to preliminary vote tallies of S&P Global Market Intelligence data analyzed by Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling AI campuses across Texas were already dealing with a suspension of approvals under Greg Abbott. Under Gina Hinojosa, they’re facing their worst-case scenario. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Swapping thirsty fairways for less-thirsty server farms makes sense, say backers of a proposed Los Angeles data center bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Ballot initiatives to ban foie gras in Washington, DC, and Denver are being led by one animal rights activist in Portland. Read more: bloom.bg/4zzKxLF 📷: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post/Getty Images

The struggling public-transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area received a financial lifeline Tuesday, with voters passing a proposed sales tax to fund the region’s trains, buses and ferries bloomberg.com/news/articles/…