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.

Meet the female engineer keeping Ireland’s data centres in the fast lane

Data centre service engineer Katelyn Dunbar reflects on her apprenticeship journey and why visible role models and earlier encouragement matter.

Is the data centre ‘skills gap’ the wrong question?

If the target keeps moving, skills shortages aren’t just about technical knowledge, they’re about collaboration, practice, and how teams learn.

Talent shortages continue across networking, security and data/AI

Businesses across the UK are reporting persistent skills gaps in networking, cybersecurity and data/AI that are slowing growth.

The hard problem in data centres isn’t cooling or power – it’s people

The skills gap – not infrastructure – is the risk that could stall AI and everyday digital life

Could soaring data centre demand bridge the skills gap?

Paul Mongan believes that surging demand for data centres could be the key to tackling the UK’s growing STEM skill shortage.

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