Data Centre Magazine August, Issue 50 | Page 66

DATA CENTRE STRATEGY
They want to see evidence of real initiatives, real progress, and leadership teams that are vocal about their water strategy and goals.
Google and Microsoft are good examples of companies that have put visible programmes behind water stewardship. Firms that can show substance behind their water strategy and can provide evidence that their work is having an impact will be well positioned to attract engineers who care about solving one of the sector’ s most sensitive challenges.
Q. HOW DOES HEALTH AND SAFETY INFLUENCE HIRING AND RETENTION?

» Health and safety is still underdiscussed in data centres, but it has a direct impact on talent attraction and retention.

These are some of the most complex live environments in construction and infrastructure, with arc flash risk, working at height, confined spaces, highvoltage energisation, heavy plant and thousands of trades on site at peak delivery.
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