US trade association representing commercial and industrial contractors, publishing data on construction pricing, employment, and spending.
US data-center construction spending rose 73% in a year to an $85 billion annual rate, Census Bureau figures for August show. Factory construction still runs at nearly twice that rate, and builders are paying about a tenth more for materials and services than a year ago.
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US nonresidential specialty trade contractors added 86,000 jobs in a year, with much of the demand coming from data-center construction. Operators hiring electricians now compete against one sector's boom, and economists disagree on how long it lasts.
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Paying for outcomes sounds cleaner than paying for tokens until someone has to price the counterfactual, and the measurement that would make NavigateAI's cut defensible has to be run inside the builder buying it.
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America's Workforce Academy opens with pilots in four metros where Meta already runs data centres, and it guarantees every graduate a job offer from one of Meta's construction partners. The credential they earn is portable.
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Sixty-three percent of contractors told the AGC an owner pulled or shrank a project in six months. They mostly blamed money, while the same survey shows fewer chances to bid and the hardest salaried hiring in three years.
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