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The Data Center Backlash Just Reached Wall Street. Here's What That Means for Your Job.
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The Data Center Backlash Just Reached Wall Street. Here's What That Means for Your Job.

In the space of one week, three data-center-adjacent companies delayed their IPOs, a new report showed $68 billion in projects blocked or delayed by local opposition last quarter alone, and Texas froze new data center permits statewide. This is the first time the backlash has visibly hit capital markets rather than just individual projects. We break down what's actually being disrupted, what isn't, and what it means if your paycheck depends on this industry.

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Digital Realty Has Stopped Waiting for Qualified Candidates
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Digital Realty Has Stopped Waiting for Qualified Candidates

More than half of data center operators now report trouble finding qualified candidates, and the pipeline producing ready-made data center engineers doesn't exist. So operators like Digital Realty have widened their hiring criteria to include master electricians, HVAC techs, and people with no technical background at all — then trained them on the payroll. Meanwhile Meta, Google, and BlackRock have pledged more than $265 million toward trades training. Here's what the door actually looks like right now, which programs are real, and what the short-course route does and doesn't get you.

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If AI Labs "Slow Down," Does Your Data Center Job Slow Down Too?
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If AI Labs "Slow Down," Does Your Data Center Job Slow Down Too?

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent the weekend calling on the AI industry to slow down — and Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis all agreed. But the same week, reporting surfaced that Anthropic itself had signed $517 billion in compute deals over the past 11 months. We break down what that contradiction actually means for the people building and running the data centers behind it — and why "slow down" probably isn't the hiring signal it sounds like.

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