Which companies make general contractors for AI data centers?

This catalog lists 60 companies on General contractors & design-build, 22 of them with listed equity: Balfour Beatty, Bouygues, Eiffage, Ferrovial, Fluor, Fortis, Hochtief, Hyundai E&C, Kajima, Larsen & Toubro, and 50 more.

How reliable are these general contractors & design-build supplier placements?

The 60 placements on this part break down as 60 inferred. "disclosed" means the company or a filing says so; "reported" comes from trade press or a reference-design list; "inferred" is a taxonomy lead with no citation yet.

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Who makes general contractors for AI data centers

General contractors and design-build firms that construct the data center shell and coordinate the trade subcontractors once architecture and MEP design (9.03) are complete.

The GC is the builder of record: it takes the design from Layer 9.03, hires or self-performs the structural, envelope, and site work, and coordinates the specialty MEP and electrical trades in Layer 9.05 to deliver a finished, commissioned building to the developer or tenant. Design-build contracts, where the same firm holds both design and construction responsibility, have become more common on AI campuses specifically because they compress the schedule between design freeze and groundbreaking. Hyperscale and AI-campus projects are larger, more repetitive across sites, and more schedule-driven than the enterprise colocation builds this industry has historically served, which rewards contractors that can standardize a design and redeploy the same project teams and subcontractor relationships from site to site rather than starting over each time. For investors, the constraint reported across this layer is less about materials than about the number of contractors with a proven track record of delivering AI-campus schedules and the skilled labor to staff several concurrent megaprojects at once.

AI delta: AI campuses are larger, more repetitive across sites, and more schedule-driven than the enterprise colocation builds this industry has historically served.

Appears at:Enterprise / small colo Large colo / hyperscale building AI campus GW-class campus· cooling:any — Present at every scale above the smallest edge site; project size and the premium for proven AI-campus delivery experience both scale up with site size.

Companies on this part (60)

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Company	Role	Ownership	Ticker	Price	1d	Confidence	Note
Balfour Beatty	contractor	public	BBY.L	827 GBp	-0.1%	inferred	region: US
Bouygues	contractor	public	EN.PA	40.30 EUR	+0.5%	inferred	region: Europe
Eiffage	contractor	public	FGR.PA	97.42 EUR	-0.4%	inferred	region: Europe
Ferrovial	contractor	public	FER	49.65 USD	-0.4%	inferred	region: Europe
Fluor	contractor	public	FLR	44.05 USD	+1.5%	inferred	region: US
Fortis	contractor	public	FTS.TO	81.13 CAD	+0.1%	inferred	Construction — region: US
Hochtief	contractor	public	HOT.DE	357 EUR	-0.2%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Hyundai E&C	contractor	public	000720.KS	92500 KRW	-0.1%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Kajima	contractor	public	1812.T	4745 JPY	-0.4%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Larsen & Toubro	contractor	public	LT.NS	3647 INR	+0.2%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Lendlease	contractor	public	LLC.AX	2.40 AUD	-0.4%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Multiplex · unit of Brookfield	contractor	subsidiary	BN*			inferred	region: APAC and other
Obayashi	contractor	public	1802.T	2918 JPY	+0.5%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Primoris	contractor	public	PRIM	65.03 USD	-2.9%	inferred	region: US
Samsung C&T	contractor	public	028260.KS	288000 KRW	+0.3%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Shimizu	contractor	public	1803.T	2029 JPY	+0.6%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Skanska	contractor	public	SKA-B.ST	271 SEK	+1.3%	inferred	region: US
Sterling Infrastructure	contractor	public	STRL	355 USD	-4.7%	inferred	region: US; site and civil
Strabag	contractor	public	STR.VI	96.40 EUR	-2.6%	inferred	region: Europe
Taisei	contractor	public	1801.T	11235 JPY	+0.8%	inferred	region: APAC and other
Turner · unit of Hochtief	contractor	subsidiary	HOT.DE*			inferred	region: US
Vinci	contractor	public	DG.PA	106 EUR	+0.5%	inferred	region: Europe
Alberici	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Bechtel	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Big-D	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Brasfield & Gorrie	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Clark	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Clayco	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Clune	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Dornan	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
DPR	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Gammon	contractor	private				inferred	region: APAC and other
Gilbane	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Hensel Phelps	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
HITT	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Hoffman	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Holder	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
JE Dunn	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Jones Engineering	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
Kiewit	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Kirby	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
Laing O'Rourke	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
Layton	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Mace	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
McCarthy	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Mercury	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
Mortenson	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Pepper	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Rogers-O'Brien	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Ryan	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Sisk	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
Structure Tone	contractor	unknown				inferred	region: US
Sundt	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Swinerton	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Takenaka	contractor	private				inferred	region: APAC and other
Walsh	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Whiting-Turner	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Winthrop	contractor	private				inferred	region: Europe
Yates	contractor	private				inferred	region: US
Zachry	contractor	private				inferred	region: US

Who competes here

The same table read the other way: every company above competes for general contractors & design-build sockets. Confidence tags matter — an inferred placement is a lead, not a confirmed rivalry.

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Questions about general contractors & design-build

What is general contractors & design-build?: General contractors and design-build firms that construct the data center shell and coordinate the trade subcontractors once architecture and MEP design (9.03) are complete.
Which companies make general contractors for AI data centers?: This catalog lists 60 companies on General contractors & design-build, 22 of them with listed equity: Balfour Beatty, Bouygues, Eiffage, Ferrovial, Fluor, Fortis, Hochtief, Hyundai E&C, Kajima, Larsen & Toubro, and 50 more.
How does AI change demand for general contractors & design-build?: AI campuses are larger, more repetitive across sites, and more schedule-driven than the enterprise colocation builds this industry has historically served.
How reliable are these general contractors & design-build supplier placements?: The 60 placements on this part break down as 60 inferred. "disclosed" means the company or a filing says so; "reported" comes from trade press or a reference-design list; "inferred" is a taxonomy lead with no citation yet.

Sources: placements without a source URL come from the taxonomy seed and are tagged accordingly. How this data is built.· Markdown · JSON