New Digital Infrastructure Training Academy

16 Sep 2024

A National Data Centre Academy project will soon be unveiled in the UK. The academy, which will be based in Leamington Spa, will be the UK's first practical data centre skills centre offering training to new graduates, existing data centre personnel, military veterans and those with transferable skills looking to move into the growing data centre sector.

The current 2024 course schedule:

21st October 10 am – 1 pm/23rd October 2 pm – 4 pm Press/Open Days
30th Oct - 4th November - Building Sustainable Data Centres
11th - 13th November 2024 - Data Centre 101
25th - 29th November 2024 Data Centre Energy Efficiency

Government employees, members of the BCS or Data Centre Alliance or other relevant trade bodies get a discount.

For more information contact info@nationaldatacentre.

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