Questions about these industries
How hiring differs across hyperscale, colocation, utilities and nuclear.
- Which industries does Data Center TALNT staff?
- Hyperscale and colocation data center construction, mission critical facility operations, utilities and power delivery, and nuclear construction. The common thread is a critical environment where a mistake takes a facility down, which is a different hiring bar from commercial construction and is why we screen on project history rather than job titles.
- What is the difference between hyperscaler and colocation staffing?
- Hyperscaler programs run on the owner's standards, on a fixed campus schedule, with owner's representative teams governing a general contractor. Seats open in waves and often need five or more roles filled at once. Colocation is closer to a traditional developer model with smaller teams, longer tenures and more crossover between the construction and operating phases. A candidate who is strong in one is not automatically right for the other, and we screen for which environment someone has actually worked in.
- Do you staff nuclear and utility construction as well?
- Yes. Power availability is the binding constraint on data center growth, so the same clients increasingly have substation, transmission and on site generation scope, and some are pursuing nuclear. The craft and management roles overlap heavily with mission critical construction, particularly in commissioning, QA/QC and EH&S, and we recruit across both.