Right now, everyone building AI data centers is focused on two things: getting enough GPUs and getting enough power. You can have the chips allocated and the megawatts locked up and still struggle to get your site energized if you can’t find enough electricians to wire it.
A large data center site needs hundreds of electricians on site for months at a time. Finding that much talent is challenging at the best of times, but when you consider that every other project in the region is trying to hire the same crews you are, things get even worse.
I've spent the last few years building data center sites, and this constraint keeps showing up. This labor shortage is only getting worse as the buildout speeds up. That led me to the real question: how can we build around it instead of through it?
How many electricians does it take to build a data center?
How many electricians does a site need? Take a 40MW site, for example. Built the conventional way, that project needs somewhere between 400 and 500 electricians on site, working for months.
