{"id":344607,"date":"2025-12-14T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344607\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:04:08","slug":"ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344607\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-12-12\/ai-data-center-boom-may-suck-resources-away-from-road-bridge-work\" target=\"_blank\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,150396,276,277,150397,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-344607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-andrew-anagnost","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-autodesk","13":"tag-ca","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}