Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

This is the hidden cost of blocking infrastructure growth #InfrastructureCosts

Name: This is the hidden cost of blocking infrastructure growth #InfrastructureCosts
Uploaded: 2026-02-12T17:56:30+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: In this segment, the speaker highlights how permitting delays have driven a 60% increase in infrastructure costs over the past five years. He explains…

12 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker highlights how permitting delays have driven a 60% increase in infrastructure costs over the past five years. He explains that this surge threatens the feasibility of building new data centers, expanding manufacturing plants, and opening greenfield distribution sites. The discussion frames these cost escalations as a critical barrier to the growth of essential facilities across the tech, manufacturing, and logistics sectors.

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He talked about the cost of infrastructure and inefficiencies. And he said permitting delays have raised infrastructure costs by 60% in the last five years. Right now, if you think about that. And it's what we'll be talking about much more of our show today, just in how that impacts distribution and manufacturing. We want to build new facilities, want to expand facilities. We want to do the different things we have going on with that. And when you've got five year, within five years cost because of permitting, how are we ever going to get the data centers that we talk about every day, all day needed to be done? How is a manufacturer going to build another plant or a distributor going to open up a greenfield location where they need to build with these things?