Data Centre Magazine October 2021 | Page 109

INFRASTRUCTURE MASONS

The HBCU Capstone project is an ideal initiative that ties directly to our commitment as a company to increasing diversity at EdgeConnex and in the data centre industry . I feel honoured to be one of the initiators of the project and privileged to serve as a mentor that helped provide the inaugural Capstone students at Hampton with guidance , best practices , and learnings throughout the entire project . To see the students evolve and become excited about data centres and consider this industry as a potential career path was extremely rewarding , highlighted by the fact that EdgeConneX itself hired two of the students , and two others also secured jobs within the industry . I can ’ t wait to grow and scale this Capstone programme to more schools , have many more students get involved and see more leaders from the industry take part and also become mentors so that we can train and recruit the next generation of leaders in digital infrastructure . datacentremagazine . com 109