How much does the US spend building data centers?

$85.0 billion

US data-center construction ran at $85.0 billion a year in August 2026, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, in the Census Bureau’s preliminary estimate.

For August 2026. Data checked 16 Oct 2026, from spending.csv.

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Jesse Hawkins, “How much does the US spend building data centers?”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 16 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/us-data-center-spending/. Data: U.S. Census Bureau, public domain, as this site publishes it in buildout/spending.csv; checked 16 Oct 2026.

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@misc{hawkins2026answersusdatacenterspending,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{How much does the US spend building data centers?}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/us-data-center-spending/}},
  note = {Data: U.S. Census Bureau, public domain, as this site publishes it in buildout/spending.csv; checked 16 Oct 2026, retrieved 2026-10-16}
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Jesse Hawkins, “How much does the US spend building data centers?”, jesseahawkins.com, data checked 16 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/answers/us-data-center-spending/

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