Insatiable Demand For Data Centers Is Pushing Development To High-Risk Areas

Barchart·12/03/2025 04:08:19

Data centers are the critical infrastructure underpinning the digital age, and even a brief outage can have massive ripple effects. That's why their developers have historically avoided disaster-prone cities like Houston and Miami. But with an estimated $7T in data center construction needed by 2030 to keep pace with computing demand and a shortage of available power in major hubs — plus a growing need for data centers to be located near population centers — that is starting to change.