US data center construction spending hits $96.5B/month, 2x general offices
BigBourgeoisie · reddit · 2026-11-03
The latest US Census construction spending report shows data center construction now runs at $96.462B per month — 2.09x the $45.964B spent on general offices. Data centers only first surpassed office construction late last year, and the gap has already doubled.
The poster has tracked this monthly since the crossover and notes that data center spending is revised upward almost every month — construction projects always run over budget. Five-year charts show office spending slowly declining while data center spending goes exponential, accelerating sharply through 2026. Construction activity typically peaks in summer. Charts were generated with GPT 5.6.
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