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Data center development

The US is the largest and most mature data center market in the world, supporting cloud, AI, streaming, e-commerce and enterprise IT. We recruit the teams who design and deliver those builds.

Demand for hyperscale, colocation and edge facilities is growing nationwide, and power, land and people are now bigger constraints than capital.

We place the engineers, designers and project leaders who take a site from plan to commissioned facility, through consultants who specialize in this market.

The market

Data center development in the United States

Facility types

  • Hyperscale builds for major cloud providers
  • Multi-tenant colocation
  • Edge sites for 5G, IoT and real-time applications
  • High-density, AI-ready builds

Industry drivers

  • Cloud adoption and digital transformation
  • AI and high performance computing
  • 5G and real-time applications
  • Corporate sustainability goals

Challenges

  • Power and land limits in Tier 1 markets
  • Shortages of engineers and skilled labor
  • Regulatory and environmental pressure

Trends

  • Liquid cooling and GPU-optimized builds
  • Modular and prefabricated construction
  • Net-zero and carbon reduction initiatives

Roles we recruit

Searches run nationally, and a substantial share of what we place is remote or hybrid.

  • Mechanical and electrical design engineers (PE and EIT)
  • Revit and BIM designers and coordinators
  • Commissioning agents and CxA leads
  • Construction and project managers
  • Critical facilities and operations engineers

Consultants in this market

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