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Vultr and VAST take AI infrastructure partnership to the next stage. Building on its collaboration through the Vultr Cloud Alliance, Vultr is deepening its work together to help customers tackle the growing infrastructure demands of AI. By combining Vultr's globally available cloud compute and cloud GPU infrastructure with VAST's AI data platform, Vultr is bringing compute and data closer together to support demanding AI workloads - from large-scale training and real-time inference to data-intensive AI pipelines. As AI moves further into production, organizations need infrastructure that can scale with growing models, datasets, and workloads without adding unnecessary complexity. As agentic AI moves into production, the data layer becomes increasingly critical. AI agents need timely access to enterprise information to make informed decisions and take action, while businesses need confidence that access to that data remains controlled, secure, and accountable. Vultr and VAST bring cloud compute, GPUs, and data infrastructure together as a composable foundation for these workloads. Customers can scale each layer according to their requirements while giving AI applications the data availability, responsive access, and enterprise controls needed for production environments. Vultr is excited to continue strengthening its partnership with VAST and building a more powerful foundation for production AI.

Cycle.io brings natural language infrastructure management to Vultr with new MCP server. Cycle.io has launched a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, now available to use with Vultr. The new capability enables developers and platform teams to connect MCP-compatible AI assistants and coding tools to Cycle.io and interact with their applications and infrastructure using natural language. For teams using Cycle.io with Vultr, this means they can ask questions, troubleshoot issues, and perform approved actions without constantly switching between their IDE, infrastructure dashboards, monitoring tools, logs, and APIs. From AI assistant to infrastructure operations. Cycle.io provides a unified control plane for deploying and managing applications and infrastructure. Through its integration with Vultr, teams can provision and manage Vultr infrastructure directly from Cycle.io. The new MCP server adds a natural-language interface to that experience. Developers can ask questions such as: * Is anything down in production right now? * What changed before this service started failing? * Show me the latest CPU and memory telemetry. * Search the logs for this environment. * Where are my servers and workloads currently running? Cycle.io can then surface relevant information about applications and infrastructure, including events, metrics, logs, networking, DNS, load balancer traffic, and workload health. This can be especially useful when troubleshooting. Instead of manually checking multiple systems to find the source of a problem, developers can use their AI assistant to investigate the issue and identify potential causes. Moving from answers to actions. Cycle.io's MCP server goes beyond retrieving information. With the appropriate permissions, developers can also use an AI assistant to perform supported actions through Cycle.io. These include deploying applications, starting or restarting containers and environments, updating configurations, managing DNS and ingress, and moving workloads between servers, data centers, or cloud providers. For example, a developer could describe a multi-container application and ask their assistant to create an environment and deploy it, without having to translate that request into individual API calls and configurations manually. These actions are governed by Cycle's existing capability system and API key permissions. Teams can define what an MCP-connected assistant can access and what it is allowed to change. At launch, Cycle.io's MCP server includes 18 tools: 10 read-only tools, 7 mutation tools, and 1 command execution tool, with additional capabilities in development. Using Cycle.io MCP with Vultr. Cycle.io's integration with Vultr enables teams to provision and manage Vultr cloud infrastructure through Cycle's control plane. The new MCP server gives those teams another way to interact with their applications and infrastructure through the AI assistants and development tools they already use. For platform teams, this can also simplify developer self-service. Developers can set up and access approved infrastructure and operational capabilities through an MCP-compatible assistant, while platform teams retain control over the permissions and actions available to them. The result is a simpler path from asking a question to understanding what is happening to taking an approved action, without requiring developers to move between multiple operational tools. Meet Vultr at AgentCon and MCPCon Amsterdam. Have questions about Cycle.io's new MCP capabilities and how to use them with Vultr? Get in touch with the Vultr team. If you're attending AgentCon and MCPCon Amsterdam on September 17, meet the Vultr team and talk to Vultr about Cycle.io, MCP, and how AI-assisted infrastructure operations can work on Vultr.

Springfield, Ohio rental market, fall 2026: prices, rents, and what the jobs news means. Every quarter I pull the numbers on Springfield, Ohio for the investors I work with, because the story here changes faster than the national headlines suggest. This is the fall 2026 edition: prices, rents, days on market, the renter share, and the jobs news that is starting to show up in tenant demand. If you are deciding whether Springfield belongs on your list, this is the page to read first. Springfield, Ohio by the numbers (updated September 2026). * Median sale price, mid-2026: $214,717, up 7.6% year over year, with 34 days on market and about 2.2 months of supply (WHIO / Redfin). * Median price 2022 | 2026: $140,750 | $220,200 - a 56.5% climb in four years (WHIO, Q1 2026). * Average apartment rent, August 2026: $1,100 (+6%). One-bedroom $904, two-bedroom $1,183, three-bedroom $1,485 (RentCafe). * About 48% of Springfield households rent rather than own (RentCafe). * Typical home value on Zillow: $190,723, and homes go pending in a median of 10 days (Zillow). * Jobs: Vultr's $1.3 billion data center opening in 2026, Silfex's 400-job plant, and roughly 1,400 Honda workers commuting from Clark and Champaign counties. A note on the math: at a $190,000-$215,000 median with $1,100-$1,180 rents, the gross rent-to-price ratio is roughly 0.55-0.6%. That is not where investors make money here. The starter-home tier - sub-$150,000 houses on the north and south sides - is where the ratio climbs toward 0.85-0.9%. That figure is derived from the medians above, not a published statistic; the point is that Springfield cash-flows at the low end of the market, and knowing which sub-$150k houses are worth owning is the whole job. What the price numbers are telling you. A 56% rise in the median since 2022 sounds like a market that has run. It has, at the median. But the median is being pulled up by the surrounding-town and newer-construction end of the market; the sub-$150,000 house on a north-side street has moved far less in dollar terms, and that is the house an investor buys. Days on market at 34 and a median of 10 days to pending say the same thing from the other direction: correctly-priced houses sell fast, and an investor who waits for the perfect deal to sit on the market will not see many. What the rent numbers are telling you. Rents up 6% in a year, to about $1,100 average, with three-bedrooms near $1,485. Compare that to Dayton at $1,110 and Columbus at $1,366: Springfield rents are within a few dollars of Dayton on a substantially lower purchase price. That spread - Dayton-level rents, sub-Dayton prices - is the entire investment case for the city, and it is why the best areas for investors are the ones where that spread is widest. The jobs story, and why it matters for landlords. Springfield has spent thirty years losing population - Clark County is down from roughly 147,000 in 1990 to about 135,000 today (USAFacts). That is the bear case, and it is real. The bull case is that 2025-2026 brought the first serious inbound investment in a generation: Vultr's $1.3 billion data center, Silfex's 400-job plant, the Crusoe data center, and Honda's continued draw from Clark and Champaign counties. Data centers do not employ thousands of people, but they bring construction crews, contractors, and a tier of technical jobs that did not exist here before, and the city is spending $75 million on service expansions to support them. For a landlord the translation is simple: more people with steady paychecks looking for a decent three-bedroom, in a city where half of households already rent and new supply is minimal. I am not forecasting a boom. I am saying the demand floor is firmer than it was two years ago. Where the cash flow is right now. * North and south side single-family, sub-$150k: the buy-and-hold core. Rent-to-price toward 0.85-0.9% on a renovated house. Stable tenants, predictable maintenance. * Older downtown-adjacent houses: the value-add and BRRRR territory. Cheapest entry, biggest rehab, widest ARV gap - and the appraisal risk that comes with it. * Two-to-four unit buildings: thin inventory, strong demand, and the best fit for a house hack. When one comes up correctly priced it does not last. * Enon, New Carlisle, Medway: lower yields, longer tenancies, better appreciation from Dayton and Wright-Patterson commuters. Pay more, turn over less. What I would not do in Springfield right now. Buy at the median expecting cash flow. A $215,000 house renting for $1,300 does not work here, and the data sites that show Springfield as a negative-cash-flow market are computing exactly that. Buy below $150,000, rehab to the block, and the picture changes completely. That is also why I would not buy sight-unseen from a turnkey provider marking up north-side houses to out-of-state buyers; the margin they are charging is the margin you would keep with a local agent. Springfield rental market FAQ. Is Springfield, Ohio a good place to invest in real estate in 2026? At the sub-$150,000 end, for cash flow, with a local team: yes. At the median, for appreciation: it is a slower, less liquid market than Columbus or Dayton, and you should expect that. How does Springfield compare to Dayton for investors? Rents are within a few dollars of each other; Springfield purchase prices are meaningfully lower; Dayton has more inventory and more liquidity. Many of my clients hold both - Springfield for yield, the Dayton suburbs for appreciation. How often is this post updated? Quarterly. The numbers above are as of September 2026 and every figure links to its source. Let's talk about your next Springfield deal. If you want these numbers applied to an actual property instead of a city average, send me your buy box. I'm Jenny Craven, an investor-friendly Realtor with eXp Realty in Springfield, Ohio. Call or text (440) 567-7961 or email [email protected] with your strategy and budget, and I'll send you the areas - and the actual streets - that fit it.