Data Centre, Sustainability & AI: Top 5 Construction Stories

Turner Construction: Building Meta's Digital infrastructure

Turner Construction Company has been selected by Meta as one of the contractors for its US$10bn data centre campus in Lebanon, Indiana.

The project has broken ground, marking a significant milestone in Meta's continued expansion of advanced digital infrastructure – one of the company's largest investments to date.

The state-of-the-art campus will span approximately four million square feet and deliver 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity to support Meta's core business as well as artificial intelligence.

How Data is Driving McCarthy's Sustainability Transformation

McCarthy, one of the largest employee-owned construction firms in the US, has released its updated 2024 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Report.

McCarthy provides the foundational business infrastructure for its subsidiary, McCarthy Building Companies, and its related businesses, and is the oldest privately held national construction company in America.

Its companies focus on solving complex construction challenges on behalf of clients in a variety of markets across America, while providing great experiences for everyone.

L&T and NVIDIA: Building India as a Global AI Powerhouse

Construction giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced a proposed venture under the IndiaAI Mission to build sovereign, scalable gigawatt-scale NVIDIA AI factory infrastructure.

The initiative integrates L&T’s engineering and infrastructure development with NVIDIA’s AI stack to push India’s ambition to be a global AI powerhouse.

The venture is aimed at enterprises, policymakers and global off-takers seeking production-grade capacity anchored in India’s industrial transformation.

By deploying AI-ready data centre infrastructure and advanced computing platforms, the partnership will support large-scale workloads across priority sectors including manufacturing, energy, and public services, moving the nation from AI experimentation to production-scale deployment.

How Fluor is Guiding Centrus Energy’s Nuclear Expansion

Fluor has been awarded a multi-year contract by American Centrifuge Operating, LLC, a subsidiary of Centrus Energy. Under this agreement, Fluor will serve as the integrated engineering, procurement and construction partner to expand a low-enriched uranium (LEU) and high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio.

The company, whose expertise has helped to solve its clients' greatest challenges, now steps into a pivotal role within a project that underscores the complexity of mission-critical supply chains in the energy sector.

This contract supports a multi-billion dollar investment initiative which combines public and private funding to install thousands of new centrifuges at the American Centrifuge Plant owned by Centrus. For the construction and engineering sector, this partnership creates a framework for managing complex regulated materials sourcing amid significant capital investments.

It highlights the expertise required in securing resilient domestic supply lines for strategic commodities like HALEU which are vital for advanced nuclear reactors and energy security. Furthermore, it showcases the integration of procurement within large-scale EPC frameworks as they balance cost, compliance and timelines under intense national security scrutiny.

Schneider & Bloomberg Aim to Future-Proof Global Building

In the current energy landscape, significant investments are being directed towards increasing electricity supply to satisfy the demands of data centres and growing populations.

To assist in accelerating the adoption of new technologies, the Energy Technology Coalition has been launched to bring together global decision makers and experts. This coalition is co-chaired by Schneider Electric and Bloomberg New Economy with the objective of making energy consumption more efficient, resilient and responsive.

The Energy Technology Coalition intends to call together leaders from across the energy, technology and infrastructure sectors. Its specific aim is to identify where and why the deployment of demand-side technologies has been slow.

These technologies include AI-enabled grid management, digital twins and industrial automation systems. The group will also explore how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies could provide solutions to optimise energy use and improve the responsiveness of the power grid.

Through these efforts, the organisation aims to enable the integration of more energy sources, including the use of clean power.