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[edison]

I was overseeing a payroll and HR implementation programme back in 2018/19. Recruiting a contract PM was one of the hardest roles I've ever had to recruit. Rates were high and all the candidates we were looking at seemed to have multiple offers.

It reminded me of my SAP days in the late...

[edison]

It depends what you mean by 'AI job' but those figures are hardly inspiring.

I don't think the deal will have much impact on contractors in the short to medium term. Building and fitting out DCs is a fairly specialised skillset.

What we need to stimulate contractor opportunities...

[edison]

Google already built a large data centre in Hertfordshire, just 12 miles north of central London. It opened last week and will have all the same challenges of the proposed one in Essex.

I don't quite understand it myself, the costs of power and cooling don't seem to make a good business...

[edison]

Not specifically. Some excellent universities for CS like Bath and Manchester offer 4 year degrees with year long placements in joint CS & Maths degrees for example. A friend's son at Bath is doing a year long data science and AI placement at one of the world's top pharmas.

The challenge...

[edison]

How much effort have you put into maintaining contact with those 54 people over say, the last say 12-18 months?

There is an element of the market being poor so many people probably had nothing of note to feed back or were just very busy.

But a network is a two way thing and...