{"id":238293,"date":"2026-06-27T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/data-center-construction-spending-in-us-surpasses-airports-ports-and-transit-combined\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:30:07","slug":"data-center-construction-spending-in-us-surpasses-airports-ports-and-transit-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/data-center-construction-spending-in-us-surpasses-airports-ports-and-transit-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"Data center construction spending in US surpasses airports, ports, and transit combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/data-center-spending-surpasses-airports-ports-transit\/\">Data center construction spending in US surpasses airports, ports, and transit combined<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/data-center-spending-surpasses-airports-ports-transit\/\">https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/data-center-spending-surpasses-airports-ports-transit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 13:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cryptobriefing.com\">cryptobriefing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the first time in history, the US spends more on data centers ($50.7 billion in April 2026) than on airports, ports, and mass transit combined ($49.3 billion).<\/li>\n<li>Private data center construction has surged 344% since 2020, with yearly growth rates in the 28-30% range as of 2026.<\/li>\n<li>The rapid increase in data center spending is driven by the growing demands of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.<\/li>\n<li>Transportation infrastructure spending does not include highways and streets, representing a significantly larger portion of public infrastructure expenditures.<\/li>\n<li>Data centers, being a major consumer of electricity, are reshaping power markets and intensifying competition with Bitcoin miners for access to cheap energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data center construction spending in US surpasses airports, ports, and transit combined https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/data-center-spending-surpasses-airports-ports-transit\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.cryptobriefing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/27130638\/kansas-city-we-are-online-meta-data-centers-800x420.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-238293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238295,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238293\/revisions\/238295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}