The AI boom has already been responsible for soaring demand and subsequent shortages in the areas of GPUs, computer memory, storage (both spinning and solid-state), electrical power, water, and networking equipment. The latest bottleneck may be the people needed to build the data centers themselves.
Asked by Bloomberg TV whether demand for data center construction was slowing, construction industry CEO Benoit Bazin said activity remains strong, but then identified labor as one of the industry's key bottlenecks. The executive, whose company Saint-Gobain supplies construction materials and building products used in hundreds of such projects, argued that labor shortages are already affecting projects in North America and are beginning to emerge in Europe as well.
