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Data center owners are racing to bring new computing capacity online as AI adoption accelerates demand. However, power constraints, permitting delays, site selection challenges, rising costs, supply chain disruption, and complex project dependencies continue to slow expansion.

This guide examines the challenges affecting data center development and explains how modern capital program management can help owners prioritize investments, improve collaboration, strengthen visibility, manage budgets, optimize schedules, and identify risks earlier.

By connecting planning and project execution, owners can make better-informed decisions, maintain control across interconnected workstreams, and reduce the delays that prevent new capacity from becoming operational.

This guide covers the following key topics:

• Power, permitting, site selection, cost, and execution challenges affecting data center expansion
• Project prioritization, collaboration, and visibility across complex programs
• Better-informed decisions around sites, designs, funding, and capital allocation
• Budget forecasting, schedule optimization, and proactive risk management
• The role of connected capital program management in accelerating time to capacity