Data Centers and the Local Workforce
Should your community be building data centers?
A Decicision About Data Centers is a Decision About the Local Workforce.
You need to understand more than job estimates in a press release. Building a data center also depends on construction employment, permanent on-site roles, local worker availability, the skills gaps between adjacent occupations and data center jobs, and the risk that scarce labor is pulled away from other local priorities.
Even if every other obstacle is solved, your workforce is still the constraint.
Three Questions To Ask:
• What are the economic benefits of a data center?
• Do you have enough workers to build a data center?
• If you build a data center, can you maintain it?
Watch the Data Centers Discussion
Hear from Nicholas Romagnolo (AWS), Courtney Taylor (AccelerateMS), and Angela Lawhorne (Virginia Community College System) as they break down how today’s data center growth actually works. You’ll learn how labor market data and cross-sector partnerships shape real-world site selection decisions.
No single stakeholder can respond to this alone.
