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• This is Part 1 of a two-part PRO series examining where infrastructure investment is flowing and how those trends are reshaping manufacturing, energy, logistics, and additive manufacturing. Part 2, by...
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This is Part 1 of a two-part PRO series examining where infrastructure investment is flowing and how those trends are reshaping manufacturing, energy, logistics, and additive manufacturing. Part 2, by Matt Kremenetsky, will focus on data centers, AI infrastructure, and where additive manufacturing fits into that rapidly expanding ecosystem.
Over the past few years, infrastructure spending has started moving into very different areas than before. Governments are still funding roads and bridges, of course, but some of the biggest investment activity now is happening around power infrastructure, shipyards, logistics networks, data centers, and semiconductor fabs.
A lot of this is being driven by AI. Data centers are expanding rapidly, espe