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As data centres become denser and more technically complex, Maksim Gavriliuk, Independent Digital Infrastructure and Data Centre Expert, explains why workforce planning needs to start long before handover.
A data centre can be designed in months and built in a few years. Developing an experienced operations engineer takes much longer. That difference is becoming harder to ignore as AI infrastructure expands. Most capacity discussions still revolve around megawatts, rack density and access to compute. Staffing tends to come later, even though experienced technical people are much harder to add quickly.
Uptime Institute’s 2026 Global Data Center Survey collected responses from more than 800 data centre owners and operators. It found that more than half were having difficulty finding qualified candidates for open positions, and Uptime has warned that recruitment and retention pressures are continuing rather than easing.
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