Digital infrastructure is the fastest growing sector on the LUVI database. Hyperscale IT load is concentrating in Western Sydney and the south east Melbourne corridor. Edge facilities are expanding into regional Australia. The talent constraint is acute: critical facilities engineers, commissioning specialists, M&E design leaders, and data centre operations talent are the most aggressively recruited pools in the Australian technical market right now.
Purpose built hyperscale campuses serving the major cloud providers. AirTrunk, CDC, NextDC, Amazon, Microsoft. Every new hyperscale site needs a critical facilities team, a commissioning cohort, and a full operations stack.
Colocation providers serving enterprise, financial services, carriers and federal government. Different talent mix from hyperscale: customer facing technical teams, sales engineering, and multi tenant ops.
Edge data centres placed closer to end users for latency sensitive workloads. Often smaller footprint, rural and regional, with different deployment and operations economics.
National fibre networks, subsea cable, metropolitan backbone and dark fibre. The physical layer underneath every data centre, cloud service and carrier network in Australia. Tight specialist pool for senior fibre construction, subsea cable and network planning engineers.
Mobile network operator build, 5G expansion, private network deployment and carrier grade infrastructure. RAN, transport, core and routing specialists.