GoKawiil47 US data center projects canceled in 2025 amid financing strain, FT reports
The Financial Times reports that 47 large data center projects have fallen through this year, citing data from RegLayer. Bernstein analysts estimate only about 35 percent of currently planned facilities are actually feasible, with people involved in the buildout telling the FT that high interest rates and volatile bond markets are threatening their plans.
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The scale of cancellations suggests the AI infrastructure boom may be outpacing both financing capacity and local political tolerance, raising questions about whether companies like OpenAI and Anthropic overcommitted to data center buildouts before securing matching revenue. Investor scrutiny of firms like CoreWeave could signal broader market doubt about the economics underpinning the AI buildout.
- 47 large data center projects have been canceled in 2025, per RegLayer data cited by the FT
- Bernstein analysts believe only 35 percent of planned facilities are feasible
- Sources tell the FT that high interest rates and shaky bond markets are threatening data center ambitions
Source: futurism.com — Jon Christian, 2026-10-22
Published there as: “There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry”
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