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The Wild Wild West Of LEGO Datacenters
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Fusion42 · 30 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Datacenter construction is rapidly shifting to modular, prefabricated methods to overcome skilled labor shortages and accelerate deployment times. This 'LEGO block' approach can reduce build times by 7-9 months (~36%) and Capex/MW by ~8%, and is becoming the default for hyperscalers and AI labs.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure.
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The bottleneck for AI growth isn't just chips; it's the electricians needed to build datacenters. If you supply the construction trades, your new customer is a factory integrator like Vertiv, not the general contractor on-site.
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