2026 PwC Report

Economic contributions of U.S. data centers,

2023-2024

The Data Center Coalition (DCC) engaged independent consultant PwC to quantify the economic contributions of the U.S. data center industry between 2023 and 2024.

In this report, PwC analyzed data center industry economic contributions between 2023-2024 at the national level, as well as for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Report highlights include:

Employment

  • In 2024, the U.S. data center industry directly employed 1,005,080 people.

  • At the national level, each direct job in the data center industry supports more than 4.5 jobs elsewhere in the U.S. economy.

  • From 2023 to 2024, the data center industry’s total annual employment contribution grew from 4.7 million jobs to 5.5 million jobs—a 17% increase.

Value Added

  • The data center industry’s total annual contribution to U.S. GDP grew from $768 billion in 2023 to $927 billion in 2024, a 21% increase.

  • Including the direct, indirect, and induced effects, the data center industry contributed $1.7 trillion to U.S. GDP in the two year period from 2023 to 2024.

  • For each dollar contributed to GDP by the U.S. data center industry, 2.1 dollars were contributed to GDP elsewhere in the U.S. economy.

Taxes

  • The data center industry’s total fiscal support to federal, state, and local governments increased from $165 billion in 2023 to $204 billion in 2024, a 24% increase.

  • In total, the data center industry’s tax contribution to federal, state, and local governments over the two year period from 2023 to 2024 amounted to $369 billion.