The impact of the data center obsession on construction
A recent Intuit survey spotlights the top challenges within the construction industry: skilled labor shortages, rising material costs, and growing operational inefficiencies. For anyone paying attention, none of this comes as a shock.
The construction sector has notoriously suffered from inefficiencies across workflows. By nature, most of the job is done anywhere but a desk, and with that comes challenges of its own. Manual takeoffs, disconnected spreadsheets and using outdated estimating processes (including for some, the decades-old pencil and paper method) continues to quietly drain time, labor, and margins in preconstruction.
But with the recent data center boom, these inefficiencies are more than just time sucks. They are getting in the way of key infrastructure being executed. Fueled by AI adoption, increased demand, and unprecedented investment from some of the largest technology companies, data centers are expected to grow at double-digit annual rates for the rest of the decade, according...
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