Data centre sector gets dedicated route into STEM Ambassadors programme

National Data Centre Day (NDCD) has partnered with AVK and STEM Learning to give data centre professionals a route into schools.

Nobody plans a career in digital infrastructure. Almost everybody stays.

Why do so many people stumble into digital infrastructure by accident, only to discover an industry with a powerful reason to stay?

New careers platform aims to make data centre roles easier to find

The Data Centre Alliance has launched a dedicated careers gateway in partnership with Data Centre Job Market. 

The data centre industry needs more ambitious women, not quieter ones

Kao Data's Lizzy McDowell explores why women in data centres should own their ambition, and how leaders can help make space for it.

The Regulatory Radar data centre operators can’t afford to ignore

Built in partnership by The DCA and Clear Decisions, the Radar provides data centre leaders with real-time intelligence on the regulatory and policy landscape not just in the UK but right across the EU.

Resilience and the women holding this industry together

Lizzy McDowell, Director of Marketing at Kao Data, on why resilience has become the silent currency of women in digital infrastructure, and why the industry needs to stop celebrating it as a virtue and start asking what it costs.

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.

AI ambition means little without the people to run it

Matt Hawkins, CEO and founder of CUDO Compute, argues the UK’s AI ambitions will stall unless it builds the specialist talent to support them.

Confidence isn’t a women problem – it’s an industry challenge

Lizzy McDowell says confidence isn’t a women’s issue but an industry challenge, and that visibility, allyship and real stories can help women thrive.

Equinix expands global skills push as AI drives data centre hiring pressure

Equinix is expanding its investment in workforce development, with a series of programmes aimed at building talent for the data centre industry.

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