Kaufman & Company Launches BUILD 2030 to Converge Housing and AI Infrastructure

Kaufman & Company has announced BUILD 2030, a national development initiative that unites its housing, real estate, construction, technology, and AI infrastructure capabilities under a single investment and development strategy. The initiative reflects a growing recognition that America's next infrastructure cycle will be defined not only by traditional roads and bridges but also by two critical needs: places for people to live and computing infrastructure to support an AI-driven economy.

"Everyone is talking about the AI infrastructure boom, but infrastructure cannot only be about machines. If we're going to build infrastructure for AI, we should be equally serious about building infrastructure for people," said Daniel Kaufman, Founder and Principal of Kaufman & Company.

BUILD 2030 will coordinate projects and investment across the Kaufman platform, which includes operating companies in residential development, build-to-rent, workforce and affordable housing, custom housing, commercial and hospitality development, AI infrastructure, real estate advisory, and venture capital. The strategy leverages more than 25 years of development experience, representing over $2 billion in project value and more than 10,000 housing units developed.

Central to the initiative is the concept of "infrastructure convergence." Housing requires land, power, transportation, entitlement expertise, construction capacity, and capital; AI infrastructure requires many of the same inputs. Kaufman believes developers who understand both physical and digital infrastructure will have a significant advantage in the coming decade.

"The real estate industry still tends to put everything into separate boxes: multifamily, build-to-rent, affordable housing, data centers, technology. We don't see it that way. We see land, infrastructure, housing, technology and capital increasingly colliding. BUILD 2030 is our response to that," Kaufman added.

The initiative also emphasizes community impact. Rather than treating data centers as isolated industrial projects, Kaufman & Company plans to explore opportunities where infrastructure investment can support broader economic development, including workforce housing, community improvements, and local employment. "We don't want to be the developer that arrives in a community, consumes power and leaves behind a box. The better model is to ask what else our investment can unlock for the people who already live there," Kaufman stated.

For Texas, this approach could signal a new wave of integrated development. As the state continues to attract technology companies and data centers, the demand for housing and supporting infrastructure grows. BUILD 2030's model may encourage similar initiatives that pair AI infrastructure with community-focused housing, potentially easing affordability pressures and fostering more sustainable growth.

Kaufman & Company's existing platform spans residential and mixed-use development, workforce and affordable housing, build-to-rent communities, hospitality, AI infrastructure, and a venture portfolio developing technology for the real estate industry. BUILD 2030 will serve as the connective strategy across these businesses as the company evaluates its next generation of projects and partnerships.

"We've spent 25 years building real estate. The next 25 will be about building the infrastructure around it," Kaufman concluded.