Big Tech and data centres reshape US mass timber market

The International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, now in its tenth year, brought together more than 3,000 delegates and offered a detailed snapshot of an industry that is no longer defined by experimentation, but by execution. What emerged over the course of the event was not a single narrative, but a convergence of forces—technical, financial and industrial—that are beginning to align around mass timber as a scalable construction solution. Demand in the United States remains firm. A significant number of projects are still in the design phase, suggesting that current activity is only part of a ...