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Data centers and advanced factories now compete for the same crews, DPR says
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Fusion42 · 8 November 2026 · Fusion42 review
DPR Construction analysis finds AI data centers and advanced manufacturing plants increasingly compete for the same skilled workforce, power infrastructure, and prefabrication capacity, driving up costs and creating project schedule risks especially in emerging data center regions across the US Midwest.
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Prefabrication shops and skilled construction crews are becoming scarce shared bottlenecks between data center and advanced manufacturing projects. You need to secure workforce and off-site construction capacity now or face delays and higher costs.
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