Labor Crunch Tests Growth Limits for US Data Center Builders
THE SO WHAT
The bottleneck on AI capacity is increasingly skilled labor, not just land, power, or chips. If your roadmap assumes more data center capacity in the US, start treating construction and craft-labor availability as a core dependency, not a background assumption.
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