Our top 10 data center construction stories of 2025 capture a year of AI-fueled growth, power shortages, and rapid innovation. Developers faced mounting energy and zoning challenges while exploring new designs, cleaner power sources, and smarter build strategies to keep pace. To date, data center system architectures have adapted to the disruption of artificial intelligence (AI) by increasing data throughput within the core data center. Processing, memory, storage and networking technologies have focused on where the data is and trying to move that data reactively as. Recently, in September 2025, Ameresco partnered with CyrusOne (acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in 2022) to build a 100 MW data center at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. Related:. icial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing demands. This expansion presents both significant opportunities and compl than for conventional non-AI business applications.
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