Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure may be affected as data center construction accelerates, According to BloombergSee rank-.
In 2025, state and local governments reported the number of dollars for the second year in a row, with the strategy predicting $600 billion in sales. Most of the money is expected to finance infrastructure projects.
Meanwhile, reported census bureau data shows that private spending on data center construction is running at a steady run rate of more than $41 billion, which is more than the same $41 billion as transportation construction.
All of these projects could compete for construction workers as the industry faces labor shortages from retirements and President Donald Trump’s crackdown.
Andrew Anagnost, CEO of architecture and design software design firm Autodesk, told Bloomberg that there is a “very inefficient” construction of data “sucking up other resources.”
“I guarantee you a lot of (infrastructure) projects are not going to move as fast as people want them to,” he said.