{"id":12135,"date":"2025-12-14T01:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T01:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:39:30","slug":"ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/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, according to Bloomberg.<\/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.&nbsp;<\/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&nbsp;&mdash; 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&rsquo;s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Anagnost, CEO of architecture and design software maker Autodesk, told Bloomberg there&rsquo;s &ldquo;absolutely no doubt&rdquo; that data center construction &ldquo;sucks resources from other projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;I guarantee you a lot of those [infrastructure] projects are not going to move as fast as people want,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates, according to Bloomberg. 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}