Global Data Centre Build-Out Reshapes MEP Engineering

The Story: AI and cloud computing are driving a major new cycle of data-centre construction. JLL expects nearly 100 GW of additional global capacity by 2030, while Morgan Stanley estimates about US$2.9 trillion in global data-centre construction expenditure through 2028.

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The Built Environment Takeaway: Data centres are pushing construction beyond conventional commercial buildings towards highly specialised power, cooling and MEP systems. High electrical loads, liquid cooling, modular construction and increasingly constrained grid connections are making energy infrastructure and MEP engineering central to project delivery.