AI is Growing Rapidly. Is Our Talent Pipeline Keeping Up? 🚀

The AI revolution is currently building at a record pace, but the industry is facing a massive "people pipeline" problem. Industry leader Carrie Goetz, Principal and CTO at StrategITcom, highlights in the article, Building the People Pipeline for the Data Center Boom, that with nearly 500,000 open roles and a third of the workforce nearing retirement, we can no longer rely on poaching talent from competitors.

Goetz proposes we must shift our focus to structured, skills-based apprenticeships and widen our reach to include veterans, tradespeople and neurodiverse talent. By demystifying the industry and showing students that tech careers involve much more than just coding, we can build a sustainable future for digital infrastructure.

The conclusion: It’s time to stop just building facilities and start intentionally building the human workbench that powers them.

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