John Booth

DCA Advisory Council Board Member & Technical Director at The National Data Centre Academy

The data centre boom will stall without a skills plan

The data centre boom risks running out of people before power, unless the industry replaces poaching with a real long-term skills pipeline.

Where is the power?

John Booth, Chair of The DCA – Energy Efficiency & Standards Steering Committee and MD of Carbon3IT Ltd, discusses the discrepancies of data centre energy consumption reporting, and the future power needs of our rapidly expanding sector.