Sep 11, 2026 · 7 min · 3 segments
We bring together two different stories about the tech sector and speculative real estate booms. First, how Netflix promises to turn the Jersey Shore into “Hollywood East”. Second, how the data centre…
Edward Ongweso Jr.Host
Jathan SadowskiHostTo data centers, right? The material property footprint of these data centers, the developments, it's all just real estate plays.
We know that from Dan Green's incredible article, The Landlords of the Internet.
But, like, I think it can be very easy to forget that these big, massive streamers like Netflix are also now major movie studios and TV studios.
That requires, like... doing things in the real world with real people until Paul Schrader has something to say about it.
But for now, this article is looking at how Netflix and these other big movie production companies are moving towards New Jersey, buying up huge amounts of land and property in an area on the Jersey Shore that is largely like vacation homes.
You know, this kind of Manhattan excerpt where there is a huge amount of tech money being invested into the Jersey Shore.
Let's get into it to remind ourselves as well that it's not just all data centers, that like these companies have, you know, massive.
landed material footprints in a lot of other ways, which are remaking like entire regions, entire cities, much in the same way that, you know, the movie production business has remade, you know, I mean, not just Los Angeles, right? But like Atlanta is movie production, Toronto, Vancouver.
And it looks like the Jersey Shore is the new location that Netflix is staking a claim on.
To data centers, right? The material property footprint of these data centers, the developments, it's all just real estate plays.
We know that from Dan Green's incredible article, The Landlords of the Internet.
But, like, I think it can be very easy to forget that these big, massive streamers like Netflix are also now major movie studios and TV studios.
That requires, like... doing things in the real world with real people until Paul Schrader has something to say about it.
But for now, this article is looking at how Netflix and these other big movie production companies are moving towards New Jersey, buying up huge amounts of land and property in an area on the Jersey Shore that is largely like vacation homes.
You know, this kind of Manhattan excerpt where there is a huge amount of tech money being invested into the Jersey Shore.
Let's get into it to remind ourselves as well that it's not just all data centers, that like these companies have, you know, massive.
landed material footprints in a lot of other ways, which are remaking like entire regions, entire cities, much in the same way that, you know, the movie production business has remade, you know, I mean, not just Los Angeles, right? But like Atlanta is movie production, Toronto, Vancouver.
And it looks like the Jersey Shore is the new location that Netflix is staking a claim on.
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