News Ground breaks on $16bn AI data centre in Michigan Detroit-headquartered contractor Wallbridge has broken ground on a $16bn, 1GW data centre called The Barn in Saline, Michigan developed by Related Digital for Oracle and Open AI. The 250-acre campus…
Perspectives A thing AI’s good for: Marrying the model to the dirt Project directors can’t sift through terabytes of raw data to see what’s going on. AI can. Every major infrastructure project starts with a perfect plan. The schedule is tight, the…
News Palantir to help McCarthy use AI throughout the construction process US builder McCarthy has partnered with AI and data company Palantir on a “multi-year, multi-million dollar” deal to create a connected AI operating system used throughout the construction process from…
Innovation How Bechtel’s going big with AI and automation US engineering giant Bechtel has created the role of Senior Vice President of Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Transformation to deliver projects using AI, robotics and digital technologies. Taking up…
News AtkinsRéalis on nuclear powered AI factories and the future of infrastructure Canada’s AtkinsRéalis has partnered with American technology manufacturer Nvidia to develop a range of nuclear powered, large-scale AI factories. AtkinsRéalis claims the new framework will allow collaboration with developers and…
News Japanese team uses AI to spot near misses on site A Japanese team of Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) and NEC have created what they describe as a first-of-its-kind AI system that automatically generates reports of near-miss incidents from camera footage…
News Turner Construction breaks ground $10bn US Meta data centre Turner Construction has begun construction on a $10bn, four-million-sq-ft data centre campus on behalf of Meta in Lebanon, Indiana. The facility will have a 1GW computing capacity to support AI…
News Biggest US semiconductor factory to break ground this week US chipmaker Micron Technology says work will start this Friday on the biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility in the country in Clay, outside Syracuse in New York State. Also the biggest…
News Melbourne’s $11bn North East Link project adopts nPlan’s AI planning tools The “Spark” consortium building Melbourne’s A$11bn North East Link mega road and tunnelling project has decided to use UK technology company nPlan’s AI-led project assurance and risk management platform as…
News Google plans €5.5bn infrastructure investment in Germany Google says it will spend €5.5bn between 2026 and 2029 in infrastructure and offices across Germany, creating an estimated 9,000 jobs a year. Plans include building a new data centre…
News AI and cloud boom sparks $7tn global data centre buildout The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is driving a global construction surge for data centres with some projects now costing more than $20bn, according to a new…
News OpenAI tells Trump to build 100GW of new power capacity a year, or lose AI race to China Firm also warns of skills shortage, saying its own AI projects will need 20% of the country’s skilled tradespeople over the next five years. OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT…
News Turner gives every employee ChatGPT Enterprise New York-headquartered Turner Construction Company has given every employee access to AI tool ChatGPT Enterprise in an agreement with OpenAI, the company founded in 2015 that unveiled ChatGPT in November…
News Contractor’s road-job bid thrown out over AI hallucinations A Polish contractor bidding for a road maintenance project in the southeastern Małopolska region has had its abnormally low bid excluded by the country’s National Appeals Chamber because its explanation…
Trends Can we build it? We’re not sure: Supply chain unease for AI infrastructure A snapshot of the global data-centre construction market reveals rising costs and unease over the construction supply chain’s ability to meet soaring demand. The vulnerabilities are both human and systemic.…
News Blackstone firm launches $3bn Saudi data centre venture Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI company Humain has partnered with AirTrunk, the Asia-Pacific data centre operator owned by Blackstone, to invest $3bn in a hyperscale data centre campus in the Kingdom,…
News “Human” artificial intelligence campus focused on wellbeing under construction in Germany Construction has begun on the 30-hectare Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) campus in Heilbronn, southwest Germany. The site will eventually host around 5,000 people working across science, business, and government,…
News Google plans $15bn AI hub in India Google says it will spend $15bn between 2026 to 2030 on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India. Plans include a hub in the east coast city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra…