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Engineering / October 22, 2026
More Than Two-Thirds of Data Centre Developers and Operators Are Understaffed. So What Happens as the Pipeline Accelerates?
More than two-thirds of the developers and operators in DCD Intelligence's 2026 workforce survey say their staffing sits below what their operations require, and nearly a third are running at under 80% of the level they need. The shortages are sharpest in facilities and physical infrastructure, power and cooling, and IT operations. Nearly half of respondents named a lack of technical knowledge among candidates as the biggest barrier to bringing new people in.
Engineering / October 12, 2026
Sweden’s Data Centre Boom: The Grid Changes and Talent Needed to Deliver It
Sweden's grid operator has cut its data centre connection queue in half. Lead times for preliminary assessments are down by close to 30 percent. At the same time, the country's power surplus is projected to fall by roughly two thirds within the next four years.
Technology / October 01, 2026
Nordic Data Center Week 2026: What It Means for Data Centre Recruitment
This week, the data centre industry across five countries is doing something it rarely does: opening its doors. Nordic Data Center Week brings public site visits, open dialogue, and community events to Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, alongside a new conference in Oslo being positioned as the start of an annual fixture. It's a good moment for that kind of openness. The Nordics have spent the last few years quietly becoming one of the most compelling data centre markets on the planet, and this week is the industry's chance to show its work.
Engineering / September 24, 2026
Denmark's New Grid Rules Change How Data Centres Get Built
By early 2026, Denmark's connection queue for new large-scale power projects had reached roughly 60 gigawatts, against a peak national demand of around 7 gigawatts. In March 2026, Energinet, the state grid operator, paused new large-load connection agreements. It was the first hard stop of its kind in the Nordic region.
What has followed is a full legislative overhaul.
Engineering / September 17, 2026
What Regulatory Scrutiny Means for the Next Wave of Data Centre Hiring in the US
New York, Texas and North Carolina have each taken regulatory action against data centre growth within the space of a few weeks. New York's governor signed an executive order in July pausing state permits for large data centres for up to a year while regulators build a formal environmental review process.[1] Texas ordered a full audit of every data centre project in ERCOT's interconnection queue in August, halting new approvals until agencies can verify what those projects actually need and how they plan to get it.[2] North Carolina's state budget repealed the sales tax exemption on electricity that qualifying data centres had relied on for two decades, while leaving capital investment incentives in place.[3]
These are three different mechanisms. Permitting, grid oversight and tax policy each work differently and sit with different agencies. But the timing is worth paying attention to. Three states have reached for three separate levers within weeks of each other, and that pattern says more about where the industry is heading than any one action does on its own.
Engineering / September 10, 2026
The Data Centre Boom in the US Is Moving Faster Than the Workforce Behind It
The US data centre pipeline just told us where the industry is heading next, and it isn't the markets everyone assumed.
JLL 's midyear 2026 North America Data Center Report found that 77 percent of the current construction pipeline now sits in what it calls frontier markets, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, and the Carolinas. Places that, until recently, had little to no data centre development history. Demand has doubled year-over-year, absorption hit a record 25GW in the first half of the year alone, and 66GW of capacity is now under construction, 95 percent of it already pre-committed. Vacancy has held at 1 percent for three straight years despite that pace of build. [1]
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