A $5 million charge per day has emerged as a blunt deadline tool in the artificial intelligence construction effort. Developers building AI now seek that fee whenever a data center opening slips past its schedule.
The builders pay that bill, along with anyone who owns a piece of the project. The demand applies as the launch date slips. The financial penalty is part of the push to speed construction or launch schedules.
A tenant this spring requested $1 million, a detail from the account of the escalating AI data center timeline.
