PwC projects global data center spending of $31.6 trillion by 2050 to meet
rising AI demand, and says a faster adoption path could lift 25‑year investment
to about $50 trillion versus its core scenario. PwC noted that scale would
exceed historical infrastructure waves and rival current US GDP (~$30 trillion).
Cloud giants including Microsoft and Amazon, alongside smaller operators, are
rapidly building compute capacity. Local opposition poses a risk to expansion:
Data Center Watch reports at least 75 projects were halted or delayed in Q1,
representing roughly $130 billion of planned investment.
