In Part One of this article, Vanesa Listek expertly described the major themes driving infrastructure investment so far this decade, illustrating how the same concerns are driving both public and private entities — and all the major sectors of the economy — to fund the same sorts of projects. Simultaneously, she analyzed the implications of that trajectory for additive manufacturing (AM).

Here, I’ll provide a baseline argument for why all of those infrastructure themes ultimately lead back to the one that gets all of the attention.

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Featured image courtesy of 3DPrint.com: Data centers.