Labor Shortages Are Putting a Bug in the Data Center Build
THE SO WHAT
The AI data center boom is now constrained less by capital and chips than by skilled labor to actually build and fit out facilities. If your roadmap assumes ‘infinite cloud,’ start tracking construction timelines and contractor capacity as a real dependency, not an afterthought.
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