Uptime Institute Says Data Center Staffing Issues Not Getting Better Or Worse
FOSS Force, Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Despite grappling with staffing shortfalls for years, one in five data centers have no women on staff.
The data center business as a whole has been struggling with staffing issues, and while the situation hasn't been getting any worse, it hasn't been getting any better either.
That's not good, Uptime Institute's CTO Chris Brown said on Wednesday. He called it a risk.
He was speaking at an hour-long online briefing on Uptime Institute's Global Data Center Survey Results 2024. 'Staffing' was the subheading that happened to be scheduled to be the last in line and time was running out. The subject would would get maybe four minutes. Stuff happens. That's the way it sometimes goes at events such as this.