Data Centers in 2025: When Power Became the Gatekeeper

In 2025, data centers ran into the same reality confronting manufacturers, defense contractors, and logistics operators: infrastructure that could no longer stretch to meet ambition.

What made data centers different was not the presence of constraint, but the speed at which it arrived — and the scale at which it reshaped location strategy.

What Area Development’s coverage revealed over the course of 2025 was not the cooling of demand, but the arrival of limits — hard, structural limits that could no longer be negotiated around. Data centers did not stop growing in 2025. But they stopped being a real estate story and became something else entirely: a test of power allocation, infrastructure governance, and political will.

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