Topic
Datacenter Buildout
Site selection, construction lead-times, and the 18-month bottleneck.
- Market Size
- $15.3B
- CAGR 18.0% (3y)
- Companies Tracked
- 8
- Business Signals (90d)
- 0
- Avg Fit Score
- 70/100
This Week
Lead story
Digital Realty's record $800M+ signed-but-not-commenced AI leasing backlog: signed leases now wait on power energization, not construction, because 2024-2026 ~120kW NVL72-class racks made energized+thermally-ready MW the gate.
The AI gold rush quietly became a fight over power, not GPUs.
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Top Companies by Fit Score
Recent Hiring (top specialties, 90d)
- medium voltage distribution6 roles
- switchgear6 roles
- grid interconnect6 roles
- liquid cooling design5 roles
- thermal management4 roles
Jobseeker Personas
BUILDOUT-SITE-SELECT-01
Site-selection lead evaluating power + water + latency + jurisdiction for new hyperscale campus.
BUILDOUT-CONSTRUCTION-PM-01
Construction project manager running 18-month-shell-to-power-on for hyperscale build.
BUILDOUT-COLO-SALES-01
Colo sales engineer winning hyperscaler pre-lease deals against REIT competitors.
BUILDOUT-FINANCE-ANALYST-01
Real-estate / infrastructure-finance analyst valuing datacenter REIT vs hyperscale-builder economics.
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