Data centers aren't just getting bigger, they're also more expensive
By Joshua Mann
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: May 20, 2026

While the artificial intelligence sector hasn’t yet delivered Earth-shattering efficiency en masse to its customers, it is delivering a seismic impact upstream with its insatiable appetite for computational power.

The rapid expansion of the new technology — and the extreme volume of the capital backing it — is driving a surge in data center development at a historic scale. That, in turn, is sucking up an enormous portion of the inputs that feed into the construction sector, including resources like electricity, equipment and workers.

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