[sosodev]

Does anybody have more insight into the demand for electricians during data center construction? This article is really light on the details. I was researching it recently and got the impression that the majority of electricians hired during DC construction are much more specialized than the average residential electrician. It also seems like large data center construction typically demands a magnitude of several hundred electricians during the peak of construction. Which to me sounds like a lot less demand for the average electrician than some of the news outlets have been claiming.

[quickthrowman]

If someone has an electrical license, they’re allowed to work as an electrician on a project. As long as there are enough experienced commercial electricians around to tell the residential guys what to do, it would be OK, there’s a ton of work on these projects that doesn’t require much or any thinking.

[downrightmike]

They probably fly the best guys in anyways.

This is likely just Homebuilders passing the blame for not building more/finishing work while rates and materials are too high.

[anikom15]

That’s not necessary. There’s nothing particularly fancy about data center power that warrants it.