Data Centre Magazine October 2023 | Page 58

“ OUR ESG AND DE & I PROGRAMS ARE PIVOTAL TO ENSURING WE PROVIDE A WELCOMING AND THRIVING WORK ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE ”

JOHN ELAND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER , STACK EMEA centre industry and especially to STACK following a career in mining .
Amy Daniell , STACK ’ s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Development in EMEA , shares how the industry has evolved at an exponential rate over the last 15 years , and that the scale of STACK ’ s projects never ceases to amaze her . Amid the growth , the company ’ s focus on sustainability and its workforce is also moving forward at pace .
“ Eight to 10 years ago , a big data centre in Europe was five or six megawatts ,” Daniell explains . “ Now , it ’ s more like 50 or 60 megawatts . It ’ s a very different scale . The key evolution is that we are reaching a talent saturation point in our industry , and we ’ re having to look to other industries for new talent .”
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