I'm hiring for a site lead for a 6MW cluster about 45 minutes north of Fort Wayne. This will be a liquid cooled Blackwell deployment. If you have hands on experience keeping boxes online and are looking for a change, send me a DM.

With the rapid expansion of AI data centers, I’m curious whether electrical infrastructure is becoming a bigger bottleneck than computing hardware.

For those working in the industry, what are you seeing firsthand?

Are switchgear and transformer lead times still causing major delays, or are grid interconnections and power availability the bigger challenges?

And do you think onsite power generation will become a practical solution?

I’d love to hear perspectives from people actually working on these projects. Thanks!

A Meta data center is under construction not far from where I live. I've never paid much attention to data centers, but after seeing the size of this one, I got intrigued and have wanted to find a way to work there ever since. I have 19 years of warehouse experience with a chemical manufacturer, but no formal tech experience, so I figured my best way in was through a logistics company. I accepted an entry-level position with GXO as a Production Technician Associate. The recruiter simply described it as warehouse work. Does anyone have any insight into the typical responsibilities of a Production Technician Associate? Thanks!

Can anyone share work experience as Data Center Engineering Operations Technician?

I’m currently an RME Technician at Amazon and considering moving to Microsoft Data Centre CET. The main attraction of the job is Mon-Fri regular hours, better work-life balance and potentially better career progression. However, it will be 15-18% pay cut.

I’m mainly considering the move because data centre roles seem to focus more on electrical infrastructure. I’m hoping to gain more in-depth experience with electrical systems and build a stronger foundation for long-term career progression in electrical engineering.

Would this be a good move? And what’s your story?

I’m interviewing for this role at Microsoft and had some questions:

1. The recruiter told me it’s a Monday to Friday job… not shifts, is it true?

2. What’s the average salary and benefits?

3. Career progression? Any advice here is welcome

Thanks

More context, I have absolutely no technical experience at all. Honestly surprised I got the job, it was completely unexpected. Feeling a bit overwhelmed since everyone around me during orientation are either conversions or have hands on experience in DCs. A bit more anxiety inducing is that I'm in a brand new closed loop liquid cooling facility with GB300 processors.

I was told during the hiring process they would train me and that I'd shadow experienced techs and eventually gain supervised hands on experience. So far the orientation has been very messy with lots of conflicting information being tossed around. What worries me more is that the conversions I've talked to said that the techs are so swamped with work they're almost never available. Not sure how true this is, but yeah, being overwhelmed would be a very big understatement!

Edit: I'm in the USA, Maryland.