June 27, 2024--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Industrial Info this week presented a complimentary webinar regarding the outlook for the global data center and semiconductor sectors, with David Pickering, IIR's vice president for the Industrial Manufacturing Industry leading the discussion. These two cutting-edge industrial sectors are not only contingent on one another in many ways but have shown similar growth trends over the past few years, with spending in both sectors escalating rapidly during and in the aftermath of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the height of COVID, people shifted rapidly online for everything from shopping to learning to working to socializing, and suddenly the data centers and chips that drive these interactions became of paramount importance, and a wave of construction began.