Nevada needs
data center technicians for its data centers
Nevada is building 5.1 GW of new data centers. Here is how much data center technicians work that makes — and why there are not enough data center technicians for it.
Data center technicians for Nevada's data centers: 791 steady jobs once they open.
Will Nevada have enough workers?
At the busiest point of the build. Bars to the left mean a shortage (good if you are in that trade). Bars to the right mean workers to spare.
What this means for data center technicians in Nevada
Nevada is building 5.1 GW of new AI data centers across 18 sites. On a data center, data center technicians run and fix the live building — power, cooling, and computer hardware — day and night.
Data center technicians — worth training up: YES. Once these data centers open they will need about 791 data center technicians to run them, day and night. These are permanent jobs, and there are not enough local data center technicians to fill them — so they hire and train. Steady, long-term work.
Nevada has 18 data-center sites in the works, with 5.1 GW still to build. That keeps data center technicians busy for years: as one job winds down, the next one is starting, so the work does not dry up after a single build.
Nevada data center technicians earn about $40,750 a year on average. Data-center work pays more than that, and when a trade is short, overtime can push experienced data center technicians well over $100,000 a year, with health care and a pension through the union.
It is the same across the country: builders cannot find enough skilled workers. The U.S. needs about 140,000 more trade workers by 2030 to build all the data centers, and most builders say hiring is their hardest problem. Microsoft's president has called the shortage of electricians the biggest thing slowing data centers down.
The building work runs a few years, not forever — but Nevada has enough lined up to keep you busy, and the skills carry over to every other big job in the state. To start, look at the Nevada data center technicians apprenticeship programs. That is the way in. Sources: a national survey of data-center building plans, plus U.S. jobs and pay data.
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The data centers behind these numbers
- Tract Silver Springs Technology Park — Tract, Silver Springs (1.6 GW)
- Tract South Valley Technology Park — Tract, Storey County (1.2 GW)
- Tract Peru Shelf Technology Park — Tract, Storey County (810 MW)
- Vantage NV1 Campus — Vantage, Storey County (224 MW)
- Vantage NV1 Reno Campus — Vantage, Sparks (224 MW)
- EdgeCore Reno Campus — EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure, Storey County (216 MW)