{"id":3369,"date":"2025-12-13T20:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:04:55","slug":"ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-12-12\/ai-data-center-boom-may-suck-resources-away-from-road-bridge-work\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, state and local governments reportedly sold a record amount of debt for the second year in a row, with strategists predicting another $600 billion in sales next year. Most of that money is expected to fund infrastructure projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Census Bureau data reportedly shows that private spending on data center construction was running at annualized run rate of more than $41 billion\u00a0\u2014 roughly the same as state and local government spending on transportation construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All these projects are likely to compete for construction workers just as the industry faces labor shortages from retirements and President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Anagnost, CEO of architecture and design software maker Autodesk, told Bloomberg there\u2019s \u201cabsolutely no doubt\u201d that data center construction \u201csucks resources from other projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI guarantee you a lot of those [infrastructure] projects are not going to move as fast as people want,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/13\/ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements to roads, bridges&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[3384,3385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}