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Get hired on Colorado's
data centers
Colorado is building 100 MW of new data centers across 1 sites. This shows you how to get one of those jobs.
1 sites |192 workers at peak |Built by DOE / NREL (seeking private developer)
Still to build
100 MW
Total workers on site at peak
192
Building sites
1
Why now
Why Colorado, why now
Colorado is one of the busiest data-center states in the country, with 1 sites from companies like DOE / NREL (seeking private developer). The work is steady, it lasts for years, and there are not enough local workers for it.
The trades needed most here: electricians, carpenters, ironworkers. For electricians, the data centers alone need 0x as many new workers as Colorado usually adds in a year.
What's inside
The Colorado playbook
- Which trade to pick in Colorado — ranked by how short the builders are.
- The site map — every Colorado data center, who runs it, and where it stands.
- How to get hired — the Colorado unions and contractors, and how a new apprentice gets in.
- Colorado pay and how to get licensed — starting pay, the data-center bump, and the steps to journeyman.
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