Site Location Trends in the World of AI: 2025 The following is a Perplexity generated report on the AI site selection trends in 2025. It is worth looking at to see where things are headed and how these trends will impact how you go about presenting your location to...
As economic developers and site selectors, we’re no strangers to evaluating the usual suspects: labor availability, logistics, utilities, taxes, and incentives. But increasingly, climate change is reshaping how and where businesses—especially manufacturers—choose to...
AI in Site Selection: Lessons from the Field Earlier this year, I was asked to conduct a site search for a Chicago-based food processing company considering expansion into Indiana. As an experiment, I began the search using ChatGPT to identify available...
At Whittaker Associates, Inc., we are wrapping up an engaging nine-month pilot project in collaboration with Valparaiso University, supported by a National Science Foundation grant. The goal was straightforward yet ambitious: demonstrate how academic resources and...
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the economic landscape, creating new opportunities for communities ready to embrace innovation. For our community to thrive economically, integrating AI into local businesses, government operations, educational...