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Anduril's .6B Navy shipyard in Maryland, a wave of third-party logistics consolidation led by CH Robinson's .8B RXO deal, and Bayer's .2B pharmaceutical bet on Ohio.

A $15 billion steel mill planned for Iowa leads a week dominated by manufacturing incentives, from the Ford-JPMorgan-Michigan deal to 48E tax credits, plus Amazon's 20-year Maryland nuclear deal and the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel breaking ground.

Construction groundbreakings fell 25% even as record facility announcements crossed the wire, a surge of foreign direct investment into North American manufacturing, and the operational-technology security risk of wiring physical plants to AI.

Coca-Cola's billion bet on localizing U.S. production, a wave of multi-billion-dollar civil megaprojects from New York's Second Avenue subway to new ballparks and West Coast ports, and the reshoring of critical hardware through Honda's rare-earth-free magnets and a new Mississippi transformer plant.

GE Aerospace's $12 billion move to buy its own castings supplier, a split pair of environmental-liability rulings reshaping where heavy industry can site, and the labor paradox of billion-dollar plants rising as legacy workers get laid off.

GE Appliances' $1 billion move of production from Mexico to Louisville leads a broad reshoring wave, foreign manufacturers from SK hynix to Sam Dong pick smaller U.S. and Canadian cities, and data centers turn to small modular nuclear and geothermal to secure power.

The escalating US-Canada tariff war, a wave of megaprojects from SpaceX's Louisiana spaceport to Bristol Myers Squibb's Texas campus, and North America's largest new transportation-infrastructure commitments.

Tesla's $10 billion solar cell plant in Texas, a wave of foreign direct investment redrawing the North American industrial map, and how obsolete Cold War infrastructure is being reborn as AI data centers.

TSMC commits $100 billion to Arizona, Texas freezes data center interconnections against 474 gigawatts of requests, and the permitting bottleneck that lives at City Hall.

The skilled trades pipeline emerges as the real constraint on industrial growth, Samsung and Broadcom sign a $200 billion AI memory deal, and utilities start squaring off against their own data center customers.