America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule

Tech companies are earmarking unprecedented sums of money to finance the build-out of massive data centers, with a planned $80 billion equity-raise by Google parent Alphabet GOOGL -3.86%decrease; red down pointing triangle being the latest example.But even as the piles of capital secured have grown ever larger, the ability to deploy it in the artificial intelligence race has become less certain. Supply-chain backlogs, permitting fights and availability of power supplies are among the issues that have caused the construction of data centers to fall behind targeted timelines, with the gap growing wider in recent months: A JP Morgan analysis last month found that more than 60% of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn’t yet under construction, and another 7% is delayed. Copyright ©2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8VideosFurther Reading