America’s Digital Infrastructure
The backbone of our economy runs on data.
From small businesses to national security, from rural hospitals to Wall Street — the systems Americans depend on every day require a massive, modern, and domestic digital infrastructure. It’s time to build it.
$500B+
Projected US data center investment through 2030
3.9M
American jobs directly tied to digital infrastructure
92%
Of US businesses depend on cloud and data services daily
#1
US is the world leader in data infrastructure — we must stay there
The case for infrastructure
Three reasons data centers matter to every American community
01 — Prosperity
A single modern data center generates $1.7 billion in economic output over ten years — more than most manufacturing facilities. Construction alone brings thousands of skilled trade jobs. Then come the permanent positions: engineers, technicians, security, facilities managers. All high-wage. All local.
02 — Security
America’s power grid, financial system, healthcare networks, and military logistics all depend on domestic data infrastructure. Every server located offshore is a vulnerability. Building data capacity on American soil is a national security imperative — as important as highways or ports were in the last century.
03 — Opportunity
The AI revolution will be won or lost on infrastructure. Countries that build domestic compute capacity will lead in medicine, manufacturing, agriculture, and defense. Those that don’t will import the future from others. American data centers aren’t just buildings — they’re the foundation of our next era of leadership.
Every great wave of American economic growth has been built on infrastructure. Roads, electricity, the internet. Data centers are that infrastructure for our generation.
— America’s Digital Future Initiative
Resources
Latest from the initiative
- How data centers became the most important economic driver you’ve never heard of
The facilities powering our digital lives are creating jobs, generating tax revenue, and revitalizing communities across the country — often quietly, and almost always underreported.
- Why data sovereignty is the national security issue Washington needs to take seriously
As AI becomes central to military and economic power, where we store and process data matters as much as where we station troops. Here’s why data sovereignty is the national security issue Washington needs to take seriously.
- The rural renaissance: How data infrastructure is breathing new life into small-town America
From tax base expansion to workforce programs, the communities hosting modern data facilities are seeing lasting economic transformation. Here’s what small-town America’s data center story looks like.