The a16z Show · Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The United States is seeing unprecedented investment in data centers, with plans to add $3-4 trillion in the next five years. This level of investment in data center capacity over the past three years has already surpassed the total dollar value of the US interstate highway system, which was built over 40 years.
“So we have about a trillion dollars of data centers in the US.”
“The plan is to add three to four trillion dollars in the next five years.”
“Over the past three years, we have already built out in data center capacity a larger amount of dollars than the entire US interstate highway system, which took 40 years.”