Out-of-Market Firms Drive 72% of Puget Sound AI Leasing as 2026 Tracks Record Year

California-headquartered AI companies now account for 62 percent of regional leasing activity, mirroring the 2010s tech migration that reshaped Seattle and the Eastside. The Puget Sound is becoming the country's most important satellite office for the artificial intelligence industry, and the firms writing the leases are almost never headquartered there. According to new analysis from […]