{"id":35462,"date":"2026-05-18T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/major-general-contractors-bullish-on-data-center-ai-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:12:21","slug":"major-general-contractors-bullish-on-data-center-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/major-general-contractors-bullish-on-data-center-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Major general contractors bullish on data center, AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Quarterly earnings reports provide a check-in, simultaneously looking at how firms have performed in the past as they eye the work they\u2019ll pursue in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Following a tumultuous news cycle for the first three months of 2026, construction firms shared their balance sheets with somewhat mixed results. Nonetheless, there were consistent themes.<\/p>\n<p>Major publicly traded builders remain bullish on data center construction amid the artificial intelligence boom and continue to deliver civil and infrastructure work funded by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Read below for takeaways from the biggest contractors\u2019\u00a0most recent earnings reports.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/construction-earnings-report-data-centers-ai\/820224\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Quarterly earnings reports provide a check-in, simultaneously looking at how firms have performed in the past as they eye &#8230; <a title=\"Major general contractors bullish on data center, AI boom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/major-general-contractors-bullish-on-data-center-ai-boom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Major general contractors bullish on data center, AI boom\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}