UII UPDATE 446 | DECEMBER 2025
Intelligence Update
Survey highlights industry staffing crisis
Staff shortages remain a significant issue for data center companies heading into 2026. Respondents to the Uptime Institute Data Center Staffing and Recruitment Survey 2025 acknowledge that hiring new staff is among their organization’s top three challenges, alongside manufacturer lead times and cost reduction. Almost a quarter of survey respondents also name staff retention as their organization’s greatest challenge (Figure 1).
Figure 1 Hiring new staff is among top challenges for data centers
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