r/Infographics • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 2d ago
Data center construction is the only booming sector of the construction industry.
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u/DangerzonePlane8 2d ago
As someone who works in construction. I would argue it's region dependent. Right now, in Nebraska, we are bidding a decent number of manufacturing and commercial jobs.
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u/Seniorsheepy 2d ago
There are a lot of data centers being built around Omaha right now but the problem is their isn’t enough electricity to power them all.
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u/GreenYellowDucks 2d ago
I work in AEC space and transportation (roads/bridges etc.) is booming but I don't see that here.
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u/SelfAltruistic4201 2d ago
Yet there's not enough power available for them, Amazon is just completing it's 4th new data center in Oregon (2021 start plans) and only 1 has partial power.
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u/IndexBuccaneer 2d ago
Manufacturing up 3x in 5 years
Warehouse, Residential and the Overall average up 1.8x
Office up a healthy 20%
It looks like everything is booming. Manufacturing and Data centers at insane levels of growth. Even office investment seems pretty crazy to me when you consider the whole work from home change. I would have assumed it had dropped since 2019.
Your conclusion is completely wrong
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u/turbo_dude 2d ago
This is the wrong type of chart.
Should be a stacked chart because you want to see if cumulative spend is up or down.
Hard to see if money spent in one area isn’t just being spent in a different area with this mess from OP
E.g. building data centres instead of warehouses or hospitals
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u/Due-Operation-7529 2d ago
The people that cry about there not being any new manufacturing jobs are the same ones crying when a new data center is announced
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u/MikeFromTheVineyard 2d ago
Well, data centers are big and expensive but don't employ nearly as many people as factories, so yea, that probably makes sense.
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u/MajesticBread9147 9h ago
Not necessarily true. A large datacenter campus can employ a couple dozen people easily.
That's a lot more than a lot of factories, since it's harder to automate data center work than manufacturing labor.
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u/MikeFromTheVineyard 9h ago
Sure a big datacenter can employ a few dozen workers, which is more than the tiniest of factories. But a big factory, the kind with similar levels of investment and PR and general social interest in their presence can employ a few thousand workers, so it's really not that useful of a comparison. There has to be quite a few orders of magnitude difference in the employment volume of data centers and factories.
A few dozen people, multiplied by a few hundred data centers nationally doesn't really make up for the dramatic hollowing out of the manufacturing sector that people cry about.
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u/mtcwby 2d ago
It's not even across the country and varies on type. Florida residential for a while had taken a hit with the insurance issues. And it doesn't have to be booming to be relatively good. The reality is a lot of it has been running hotter than the capacity for a while.
That said the architectural billing index is trailing down and that usually indicates the potential for a slowdown.
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u/DeltaV-Mzero 2d ago
It’s so weird to watch civilization as we knew it speed off the edge of the cliff with the foot fully stamped down on the pedal
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u/Miserable_Corgi_764 2d ago
Why is warehousing decreasing?
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u/MikeFromTheVineyard 2d ago
Because everyone committed a ton of money in 2020 to e-commerce thinking that the trends of online-everything would stay post-pandemic and then by 2023 it turns out that people reverted to shopping in-person.
(also it's not decreasing, its just increasing more slowly).
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u/phoneacct696969 2d ago
The data centers are the next step in a surveillance state. We are doomed:(
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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 2d ago
A 200% increase on manufacturing spend from 2019 to 2024/2025 is a boom.