Data Center Trends and Technician Workforce Development

This video from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center features two presentations on trends and workforce development in the data center industry. These presentations were given at the 2025 BEST Annual Institute: Ensuring Sustainability: Energy Efficient Buildings & Technician Education. The first presentation, by T.J. Ciccone of STACK Infrastructure, outlines the U.S. data center market. Ciccone covers annual jobs created, projected growth, and occupational profiles for jobs in the industry. The second presenter, Josh Labrie of NOVA SysTEMic, shares workforce development strategies to prepare students to work in data centers. These strategies include apprenticeships, work-based learning opportunities, and internships. Labrie concludes by sharing the curriculum for a data center operations certificate program.

This video runs 00:33:08 minutes in length. Other videos in this series are available to view separately.