PwC’s Global Infrastructure Outlook 2025–50 transcript

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TXT: What comes to mind when you think of infrastructure?

TXT: Some imagine roads.

TXT: Power plants. 

TXT: Data centres.

TXT: At PwC, we imagine something bigger.

TXT: We imagine a platform for accelerating human progress.

Clara Cutajar: Infrastructure isn’t just roads and bridges anymore, it’s the platform that underpins productivity, resilience, digital connectivity, and ultimately human progress. 

TXT: By 2050, more than $150 trillion will be invested in infrastructure.

Christian Elsholz: In the next 25 years, infrastructure will radically transform from today’s static centralized systems to dynamic, intelligent and interconnected networks.

Christian Elsholz: Driven by climate change and technology, it will become hyper intelligent with AI and IoT, decentralised with distributed energy and local resource management, and hyper resilient against climate and cyber threats.

Mohammad Athar: We’re actually seeing extraordinary momentum from smart mobility, clean energy projects, and data centre projects

Darryl Walcroft: The next wave of growth will not come from individual assets, but from integrated, multi-sector ecosystems.

Darryl Walcroft: Energy and compute are converging. Tomorrow’s leading data centres will be designed around their energy architecture from day one.

Johanne Mullen: Unlocking the opportunity requires courage, coordinated planning, faster approvals, new partnership models and bold investment in integrated systems.

Johanne Mullen: The decisions we make today will determine whether global infrastructure meets the moment — and shapes a more prosperous, connected, and sustainable future.

TXT: So when you think of infrastructure…

TXT: What do you imagine?

TXT: Explore PwC’s Global Infrastructure Outlook 2025–2050.