America in motion
How companies can power growth and innovation
Changing geopolitical dynamics, tariff uncertainty and policy shifts together present a transformative opportunity for domestic growth and innovation. This transition in US business, however, exposes critical gaps in infrastructure, workforce skills, investment capacity and energy systems needed to evolve to a modern, resilient industrial base. Incentives will play a role, directing resources to help close those gaps. Building agility into your company’s strategy and planning holistically can help position you to address any disruptions down the road and stay ahead.
Learn how we can help you with your domestic production and reshoring plans, including your energy and data center needs to accommodate your AI and compute demand, financing strategies, and how to innovate, digitize and make your current operations more efficient.
Here’s what you should be thinking about as you look to power growth and innovation at your company.
- US manufacturing and reshoring
- AI, data and data centers
- Energy demand and supply
- New ways of sourcing capital
- Modernizing operations
US manufacturing and reshoring
If tariffs, geopolitical shifts or the US-first manufacturing push have you thinking about expanding or reshoring operations, or if you are considering building a data center, there are things to consider before you make the move. You may not have opened a new facility in decades, so it’s important to understand all the issues that go into this equation. Infrastructure, talent and utilities are three key pillars to start with, in addition to customer, supplier, network, financing and tax considerations. It’s also critical to conduct rigorous scenario analysis to anticipate shifting geopolitical, economic and supply chain dynamics.
We can help you improve efficiency, effectiveness and financial performance across your core operations functions, including warehousing, logistics and procurement. We help businesses with reshoring and choosing the right site locations by analyzing market data and financing strategies, while helping deliver capital projects and infrastructure programs on time.
How we can help:
- Operations strategy
- We have the specialists and experience across tariffs, supply chain, tax, operations and geopolitics. Together, we help you build a robust strategy around new US production operations. We can help with commercial market diligence, financial modeling, scenario planning, estimating transition costs, evaluating your production footprint and demand forecasting.
- Location strategy and site selection
- We help businesses choose the right locations by locating available sites, analyzing market data, arranging and attending site visits, and financing strategies.
AI, data and data centers
If your company is like a lot of others, your AI use is booming — and so is your need for infrastructure to support it. And it’s not just AI, it’s cloud and other high-end processing that’s driving your compute usage. There’s an expanding ecosystem that’s tapping into this growing demand for data centers. If you’re part of it, there are a number of things to consider, from site selection to financing options.
We can help you understand your compute demand, what’s driving that demand, how to manage it and what your capitalization pathway is. We offer a full suite of services, from helping with your construction plans and modeling any associated risks to being on the ground building your physical assets, managing contractors and providing managed services to continue running operations.
How we can help:
- Technology strategy
- Our teams help align your capabilities with new technologies and architectures necessary to scale your digital businesses, keeping the focus on the most important areas for digital transformation.
- Data modernization
- We can help you enhance your infrastructure and data management and leverage advanced analytics across your cloud platforms. This includes data platform modernization, storage and management, cloud infrastructure optimization and data integration.
Energy demand and supply
If you plan to reshore or scale your operations, build a data center or innovate more across your business, you should plan for a surge in your energy demand. You’ll need more power in more places. Whether you’re a utility or not, it’s critical to innovate the types of power you’ll need and model your options. Do you build new generation facilities yourself? Are you thinking about the incentives for different types of energy? And are you thinking about energy security as you work through these decisions? These are the types of questions we can help you answer.
We can help you take a holistic look at the economics of your power needs and help you map out your contingencies. We can model those needs and different power mixes while considering climate resilience and energy security.
How we can help:
- Renewable emerging technology
- The path to cleaner energy and related investments takes an integrated approach. We help you get there.
- Sustainability strategy and operations services
- We can help you build resilience across your value chain, design sustainable products and supply chains, and access capital and incentives.
New ways of sourcing capital
If you’re thinking about a major capital project, you need to be able to fund it. But tight lending, regulatory constraints for traditional banks, and slow or delayed financing decisions may have you behind. Private credit and alternative capital are stepping in with capital to deploy. Have you considered these new financing products and avenues?
We can help you with your capital strategy for large-scale investments. We do financial modeling, structure tailored capital solutions and operationalize the complex capital programs you need. We can also help you sort through the complexity of incentives and due diligence to help you build capital resilience.
How we can help:
- Capital markets
- We can help you with your capital strategy for large-scale investments, financial modeling, structuring tailored capital solutions and operationalizing complex capital programs.
Modernizing operations
If you’re going to make big capital expenditure investments, you should have better, smarter and more efficient operations — to perform at a higher standard and deliver lasting value. That means redesigning your infrastructure. And it means thinking about the upstream and downstream implications, how to modernize your facilities and how to build in flexibility so you can react swiftly to challenges and continue to adapt as technology changes.
We can help you think holistically about your whole operations picture, including how to transform your product and manufacturing capabilities through innovation and AI. We look at all the steps in your value chain to help you scale and build a stronger business.
How we can help:
- Supply chain transformation
- Building agile, resilient and connected supply chains takes more than vision. Our team delivers end-to-end performance through integrated planning, supply chain execution and the design, implementation and optimization of enabling technologies.
Powering growth and innovation webcast series
Fueling US growth: innovation and agility in AI, energy and manufacturing
PwC’s approach to powering growth and innovation: What makes us different
We work with business leaders to move your business forward with confidence and unlock new opportunities in industrial infrastructure, energy development, AI and advanced manufacturing. Whether it’s expanding domestic production, powering your digital and data capabilities, finding new capital and financing sources or driving operational innovation, these issues don’t operate in silos. They intersect.
We provide an integrated analysis that brings in data-driven inputs, market analysis and scenario modeling, long-term strategic planning and cross-functional experience to help you through the complexity. Our broad range of specialists can help guide your strategic decisions and mitigate risk throughout the full end-to-end cycle so you can stay ahead.
Learn more about America in motion
President Trump’s second term is continuing at a rapid pace. PwC's America in motion program keeps up with the latest changes in key areas including trade, tariffs and supply chain, tax policy, powering growth and innovation, and geopolitical risk and regulatory change and focuses on what clients need to know now.
We help you see the connections between these issues and think holistically to understand the broader implications to your business — so you can own your next move.
