U.S. data-centre spend to eclipse offices

Artificial intelligence is driving a data centre building boom across
the United States, with expenditure on building AI infrastructure
set to surpass that of office buildings

DATA CENTRE VS OFFICE CONSTRUCTION (private spending)*

$bn
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

Offices

Data centres

$45 billion

$41 billion

Increase
since 2014
2,200%

Nov 2022
Launch of
ChatGPT
AI chatbot

*Seasonally adjusted annual rate, monthly (Jan 2014-Jul 2025)

2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

LATEST CONSTRUCTION PLANS

US tech giant Nvidia
investing up to $100bn
in OpenAI Ð firm behind
ChatGPT Ð to build
at least 10 gigawatts
 of AI data centres

OpenAI, Oracle and
SoftBank planning to
open five new AI data
centres as part of U.S.
governmentÕs $500bn
Stargate programme

Social media giant
Meta spending hundreds
of billions of dollars on
building huge AI data
centres dubbed ÒTitan
ClustersÓ

Sources: Flaticon, Sherwood News
Picture: Newscom
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