Delivering capital assets and infrastructure systems to power the next economy

Infrastructure services

For a century, the US built the arteries of a physical economy. Power grids, telecommunications, roads, bridges, and railways. Infrastructure that moved goods, connected regions, and kept industry running.

In the digital economy, billions of data points pulse through systems every second. Now, AI isn’t just accelerating that pulse. It’s supercharging it. In turn, what counts as infrastructure is expanding beyond traditional assets to include data centers, power delivery, renewable energy, storage systems, microgrids, smart networks, and advanced nuclear energy generation. At the same time, geopolitical pressures are driving advanced manufacturing back on US soil, adding to the infrastructure load.

As new classes of capital assets enter the infrastructure ecosystem, the bar is being raised on how these assets are delivered in terms of speed, resilience, reliability, and transparency. The pressure to move—and move fast—is intensifying. PwC research estimates $33 trillion in US infrastructure investment is needed over the next 25 years to keep pace.

This is more than just a forecast. It’s a catalyst.

But this investment cycle won't look like anything that came before it. The challenge isn't building bigger. It's building everything at once. The organizations financing and delivering new infrastructure such as technology companies, utilities, developers, and hyperscalers, are managing multiple projects simultaneously across sectors, geographies, and risk profiles. As capital flows from governments, corporates, private equity, and institutional investors, stakeholder expectations have never been higher. The margin for error is razor thin. Every project has to deliver full value. No exceptions.

PwC doesn't treat infrastructure as a collection of standalone projects. We shape, deliver, and sustain it as an integrated system. Our infrastructure services are guided by multidisciplinary teams that span engineering, technology, finance, tax, and sustainability. We help CFOs, COOs and private equity leaders manage every facet of the project lifecycle, from financing and planning through construction and the transition to operations. Powered by advanced AI tools and our Capital Projects Studio technology platform, we enable end-to-end project management and turn infrastructure capital allocation into lasting capacity so every dollar performs efficiently.

But this investment cycle won’t look like anything that came before it. The challenge isn’t building bigger. It’s building everything at once.

The infrastructure systems shaping the next era of growth

The global economy depends on electrification, data, and automation. That dependency is driving a fundamental shift. Infrastructure is no longer a collection of isolated assets. It's an interconnected system where every piece has to work together.

The energy transition. Digital infrastructure acceleration. Demographic pressures. Supply chain reshoring. These forces are converging and giving rise to five core infrastructure categories that will define the next era of economic growth.

In each of these categories of infrastructure, our specialists help companies navigate the project lifecycle, from planning through operations. Project complexity? We can help you overcome it and drive financial performance. Making an investment? Beginning with deal execution, we can help you deploy capital smarter, move faster, and drive returns.

The essential enabler of electrification and the digital economy. Investment spans generation, transmission, distribution, and storage. The modernization of US power grids will enable integration of renewables, drive innovation around small modular nuclear reactors, and serve power-intensive loads like data centers.

The connectivity engine for trade and growth. Roads, rail, ports, and airports will be re-engineered and expanded, with digital tools enabling smarter, more integrated, and lower-carbon mobility systems.

The next wave of productivity at scale. Compute growth demands coordinated investment across data centers, power grids, and enabling digital infrastructure that are built to be resilient, secure, and sustainable.

The physical footprint of reindustrialization. Facilities must be flexible, automated, and digitally enabled while tightly linking energy efficiency to power access, logistics, and supply chain systems.

The backbone of community and workforce productivity. Healthcare, education, and community assets need upgrading and expansion, often requiring new delivery models that balance affordability, resilience, and long-term performance.

Companies

Our infrastructure services guide companies through decisions that support growth strategies, operational resilience, decarbonization, and stakeholder value creation.

Plan: Define infrastructure strategies, capital allocation plans, investment cases, and delivery models aligned to business growth and performance goals.
Finance: Design capital structures and commercial models that support growth, resilience, and returns with tax advice, debt, and equity structuring and fundraising support.
Procure: Develop procurement and partnership strategies that optimize cost, capability, and manage risks.
Build: Lead complex programs with strong delivery controls, supply chain transformation, and commissioning support.
Operate: Enhance asset performance through optimization, analytics, resilience, compliance, and performance improvement.
Exit: Support acquisitions, divestment, and decommissioning.

Investors

Our infrastructure services support investors across the full investment life cycle—from origination and platform design through capital allocation, transactions, active ownership, and exit—helping turn capital into long-term value.

Plan: Originate and assess investment opportunities, define platform and portfolio strategies, and allocate capital in line with risk-return objectives and long-term investment goals.
Structure & fundraise: Design, fund, platform, and transaction structures that meet regulatory and tax requirements, with support across capital structuring, debt and equity raising, co-investment, and refinancing.
Deploy capital: Execute acquisitions and platform build-out through lead advisory, valuation, commercial, financial, and technical due diligence, and transaction support—deploying capital with pace and discipline.
Operate: Post deal integration services, including HR and transformation advisory; asset and portfolio performance improvement through operational optimization, operating model transformation, cost and capital efficiency, digital enablement, and sustainability integration.
Exit: Support value-realizing exits through asset disposal, concession expiry, decommissioning and wind-down, including sell-side diligence, transaction support, and residual risk improvement.

AI-powered capital delivery: See what’s coming so you can keep your projects on track

As infrastructure programs grow in scale and complexity, companies are managing multiple projects across geographies at once. The old playbook of project tools that tell you what already happened is obsolete.

PwC's Capital Projects Studio was built for this moment. It harnesses AI, including machine learning, and advanced analytics to fundamentally reshape how leaders manage high-stakes capital portfolios. One unified platform that integrates strategy, financing, execution, and performance. One source of forward-looking intelligence that turns complexity into competitive advantage.

It delivers four critical capabilities:

Deploys AI-driven insights to improve scope, schedule, risk, and performance management, transforming uncertainty into controlled delivery so problems are spotted before they cascade.

Strengthens investment decisions through enhanced business case modeling, stakeholder alignment, and portfolio governance that connects capital strategy to frontline execution.

Integrates financing structures, deal terms, and tax incentives early in the planning process to maximize value creation and minimize time to operational cash flow.

Transitions assets seamlessly into operations with embedded resilience, cybersecurity, and performance management that sustains value over the asset lifecycle.

Have questions about navigating the infrastructure investment cycle?

PwC specialists work with leaders on pressing business and operational issues to help you answer the following questions:

Leading organizations prioritize capital by aligning near-term demand with long-term investment decisions linked to business strategy, delivery feasibility, risk, and asset performance. A disciplined portfolio approach can help leaders compare opportunities across sectors and deploy capital where it can create the most value.

Many projects are being delayed by a combination of power constraints, permitting complexity, supply chain pressure, labor shortages, and rising stakeholder expectations around cost containment, resilience, and transparency. As more assets become interconnected, companies also need better coordination across financing, planning, construction, and operations.

CFOs can improve outcomes by evaluating capital decisions through the full asset lifecycle, connecting the business case to execution readiness, financing structure, tax considerations, and operational performance. That approach helps reduce the gap between what gets approved and what actually gets delivered.

Programs are more likely to stay on track when leaders combine strong governance, early risk identification, disciplined procurement, and real-time performance visibility across the portfolio. AI-enabled project controls can also help teams spot emerging issues sooner and act before they affect cost or scheduling.

Speed depends on treating data center development as part of a broader infrastructure system that includes power access, transmission, tax, permitting, land, and delivery sequencing. Companies that align these decisions early can improve siting choices, reduce delays, and bring capacity online faster.

Manufacturing expansion decisions should account for more than site selection alone, including power availability, workforce access, logistics, incentives, supply chain resilience, and speed to operation. A broader infrastructure lens can help companies avoid bottlenecks that affect project returns later.

Grid modernization is becoming a central factor in infrastructure planning because electrification, AI growth, and industrial expansion all depend on reliable, scalable power. Investment decisions increasingly need to consider generation, transmission, distribution, storage, and how future loads will be served.

Tax credits, incentives, and deal structures can materially influence project economics, funding strategy, and time to cash flow when addressed early enough. Bringing these decisions into planning—not after the fact—can help organizations improve returns and avoid leaving value on the table.

Infrastructure consulting helps organizations plan, finance, deliver, and operate the physical and digital assets that support growth, resilience, and long-term performance. It brings together strategy, tax, capital planning, project delivery, operations, and risk management across complex infrastructure investments.

PwC helps companies and investors across the full infrastructure lifecycle, from strategy, capital allocation, financing, and tax structuring to procurement, program delivery, operations, and exit. Our multidisciplinary teams support infrastructure across sectors including power, transport, data centers, manufacturing, and social infrastructure.

Companies can improve infrastructure resilience by designing assets and systems to better withstand disruption and extreme weather events, adapt to changing demand, and maintain performance over time. That includes stronger planning, better data and monitoring, cybersecurity, supply chain visibility, and operational risk management.

US Perspective | Global Infrastructure Outlook

$33 trillion in projected US investment needs by 2050

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J.C. Lapierre

Sustainability Leader, PwC US

Daryl Walcroft

US Capital Projects and Infrastructure Leader, PwC US

Rob McCeney

Partner, Energy & Infrastructure Deals, PwC US

Thomas Hylton

Principal, Real Estate and Infrastructure Tax, PwC US

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