2025 PwC Report

Economic contributions of U.S. data centers,

2017-2023

The Data Center Coalition (DCC) engaged independent consultant PwC to quantify the economic contributions of the U.S. data center industry between 2017 and 2023.

In this report, PwC analyzed data center industry economic contributions between 2017-2023 at the national level, as well as for all 50 states and the District of Columbia between 2022-2023.

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Report highlights include:

Employment

  • From 2017 to 2023, direct employment in the U.S. data center industry grew by over 50%, compared to 10% growth in employment for the United States overall during the same period.

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

  • From 2017 to 2023, the data center industry’s total annual employment contribution grew from 2.9 million jobs to 4.7 million jobs—a 60% increase.

Value Added

  • The data center industry’s total annual contribution to U.S. GDP grew from $355 billion in 2017 to $727 billion in 2023, a 105% increase.

  • Including the direct, indirect, and induced effects, the data center industry contributed $3.46 trillion to U.S. GDP during the 2017-2023 period.

  • For each dollar contributed to GDP by the U.S. data center industry, 2.5 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 $66.2 billion in 2017 to $162.7 billion in 2023, a 146% increase.

  • In total, the data center industry’s tax contribution to federal, state, and local governments over the 2017-2023 period amounted to $715.5 billion.