Data Center Construction Continues to Grow by Tom Zind
How do you paint a rosy picture for a construction market sector that’s been in the dumps and shows scant signs of a quick change of fortune? There’s one way: Stretch the definition, and throw in a category that’s come so far so fast that standard market indices haven’t been able to catch up. That’s what FMI Corp., does in the second-quarter installment of its 2025 North American Engineering and Construction Industry Outlook Reasonably, it lumps data centers into the office component of its non-residential construction analysis, yielding a bullish four-year forecast for the sector that beats nine of 10 others. Citing forecasts of data center demand growing 34% in 2025 and 18% next year, FMI sees office construction growing every year between 2026 and 2029 at an average of about 7% annually. Data centers may be the office of the future, housing the infrastructure enabling higher productivity that could be a driving force for the economy for decades to come. Data Center Construction Continues to Grow | EC&M
