NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy merge to become the world's largest electric utility business. The MDTA announces $4.8B in contracts for the Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction, Prime Data Centers breaks ground on a $3B Arizona campus, and Fleet Data Centers begins developing a mega campus in Nevada. Elsewhere, Blue Origin announces a $600M rocket plant expansion and Track3D gets deployed across $413M worth of active projects. Let's dive in!
Google commits $15 billion to a new Missouri data center, Toyota files for a $2 billion manufacturing expansion in San Antonio, and Nebius secures its second US gigawatt-scale AI campus in Pennsylvania. USG Corporation pushes forward with a $1.175 billion plant in Orange, Texas, Ferrovial-Webber land a $1.47 billion Houston highway contract, and the Port Authority taps STV-Turner for New York City's Midtown Bus Terminal replacement. Plus, six ConTech startups raise $87 million globally in this week's funding roundup. Let's dive in!
Amazon acquires 1,300 acres in Texas for a hyperscale data center campus, Kevin O’Leary’s $100B Stratos Project gets greenlit in Utah, while Eli Lilly invests $4.5B across 2 Lebanon Indiana plants, and Virginia’s future tallest building starts to climb. Meanwhile, Hut 8 selects Jacobs for $17B data center in south Texas, a $650M children’s hospital moves forward in Tampa, and AI powered platform Avola hits a $1B valuation. Let’s dive in!
ABC reports extremely slow hiring numbers for March, AECOM Hunt and Turner break ground on The Cleveland Browns new stadium, a $1B hospital is announced in Kansas City and U.S. Steel commits $1.9B to a new plant in Arkansas. Meanwhile, a $3B data center breaks ground in De Soto Kansas, Microsoft announces another Georgia campus and Turner releases their AI safety tool to the public. Let’s dive in!
Related Digital secures $16B financing for Oracle data center, AbbVie announces a $1.4B campus coming to North Carolina, Bechtel breaks ground on America’s first next-gen nuclear plant in Wyoming and Ferrara invests $675M in South Carolina for a candy plant. Meanwhile, Google is confirmed to be developing a second campus in Georgia, a $4.6B highway job breaks ground near Atlanta and a new AI powered bid intelligence platform goes live. Let’s dive in!
Switch secures a first of it’s kind $2.6B letter of credit facility for data center developments, L3Harris invests $1.27B in a Virginia rocket plant expansion, and Centrus picks a contractor for its Ohio nuclear expansion. Bridgestone Arena gets a $750M makeover, Meta expands in El Paso and breaks ground in Oklahoma, while ConstructConnect launches an AI-powered takeoff tool built on Google Cloud. Let's dive in!
Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, while Ryan Companies breaks ground on Aligned Data Centers' new campus. Texas A&M starts construction on its own semiconductor institute, and WRS launches a $1.2 billion mixed-use redevelopment in Maryland. A new $6 billion data center campus has been proposed in Georgia, Green Data Centers pitches a bold 10 GW solar field and McKinsey formally teams up with ALICE Technologies. Let's dive in!
CNBC reports the data center boom is fueling a surge in demand for skilled trade workers, Mercedes-Benz commits $4 billion to its Alabama plant, and Metrobloks moves forward on converting a former drive-in theater into a data center. Austin lands a new $180 million healthcare tower, AWS acquires 1,300 acres for its first “exascale” data center campus, a joint venture forms to build the Texas Critical Data Centers Campus, and ETH Zurich finds a new career for sawdust in fire protection. Let's dive in!
The $400M White House Ballroom project is ordered to pause, Oklahoma City gets a new $900M stadium, Metrobloks announces a $1.4B data center coming to Missouri and Valeo breaks ground on a $225M manufacturing plant for General Motors. Burns & McDonnell break ground on a 260MW battery storage facility, UCB announces a $2B pharma plant in Georgia and Suffolk Construction introduces Arrowsight’s safety technology to their workforce. Lets dive in!
Trump targets $4 trillion for semiconductors, Elon Musk announces a $25 billion chip fab in Austin, and the Messer-Sundt JV breaks ground on a $900 million expansion. Google is confirmed as the operator behind Project Cannoli, Skanska picks up a $165 million contract in Texas, and SoftBank launches a $30+ billion data center campus in Ohio. Meanwhile, Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a new start-up, let's dive in!
