That's awesome for Calgary. Not a ton of jobs with datacenter operations, but the side benefits from tech companies wanting to be near a data center are huge. We have several datacenters here in Phoenix, including Apple's which houses their NOC/SOC. For an IT guy, these places will blow your mind.
The Apple facility is crazy. The sheer scale of this places is hard to believe. Very unassuming from the street unless you know what you are looking for (security and power generation). Imagine four Costcos side-by-side, all filled with racks of servers 15' tall, aisle-by-aisle, each stack with a dedicated cooling plant. You peer down the row and they fade off into the darkness. It's surreal. The power consumption is insane. I was lucky enough to get into the backplane space and see the fiber optic connectivity. Everything, and I mean everything (including the management frame), was fiber optic connected. Walked out of there and would laugh any time someone would suggest their data and systems were better off in an enterprise datacenter.
Anyone who wants to get a job in this space needs to get some training on kubernetes and get their head wrapped around containerization. Good on you Calgary, and good luck in spinning this into some economic diversification!
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