There is no doubting that America’s economy, industrial base and cities need first world infrastructure, even as tremendous new demands are laid upon the nation’s power and water grids by multiplying AI-driven data centers.
The dollar signs on rebuilding and expanding U.S. transportation, power, water and other infrastructure systems are daunting; about $10 trillion in outlays will be needed to make the U.S. shipshape in the next 10 years, warns the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Estimates vary, but total infrastructure spending in the United States lately runs roughly half the amount needed to meet ASCE’s recommended annual totals. The costs of inadequate or deteriorating infrastructure are mounting, with ASCE estimating that without sufficient investment, inadequate infrastructure could set the U.S. economy back $10 trillion in lost economic output by 2039. Drivers and deliveries are slowed, vehicles damaged, electric bills rise, while inadequate
