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Hawkins: Electrician costs have tripled over the last decade
“Without a doubt. Yeah, the electrician the cost for electricians You know, I'm going to give you a, you know, estimate has tripled in the time I've been in the business. Yeah. In the last decade.”
Labor ranks behind power and community pushback as data center bottlenecks
“Power and is, is the biggie, and the community has raced up the list pretty quickly. You know, didn't think we'd be at the White House six months ago talking about who pays for infrastructure on the grid, but we are. And right after that would be labor.”
Hawkins: Data center industry secrecy originated purely from early security requirements
“Our industry grew up being secretive. Not secretive because we had anything to hide from anybody, but think about the first two significant customers for large-scale data centers. It was the financial institutions and it was the government, and they were secre…”
Hawkins: Data center campuses take four to five years to build
“We talk about a lease that gets signed today. We're going to be building that campus for four or five years.”
Hawkins: Compass Datacenters builds a single facility in nine months
“So it takes us about nine months to build a single building”