{"id":906967,"date":"2026-09-23T19:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906967\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:54:21","slug":"data-centre-employment-grows-by-23-in-canada-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906967\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centre employment grows by 23% in Canada: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Security workers paid hourly could earn about $9 more, a 40% premium. Installation and maintenance workers \u2013 one of the largest groups in the build-out \u2013 see a smaller $5-per-hour, or 17%, premium, compared with 42% in the United States.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Data centre postings are also far less likely to be labelled temporary or contract, according to Indeed. The authors caution, though, that a role advertised as permanent may not outlast the construction phase.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0363_639257739946392374.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What does data centre hiring mean for talent pipelines?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Montreal and Toronto, about 80% of applicants for data centre roles live locally, Indeed finds. In Regina, 42% come from outside Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew rejected a proposed data centre southeast of Winnipeg, saying it posed &#8220;a big threat to the environment and not much benefit to the economy,&#8221; CP reported. Hamilton, Ont., council was weighing a moratorium in July 2026 after residents raised grid strain and noise concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Security workers paid hourly could earn about $9 more, a 40% premium. Installation and maintenance workers \u2013 one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,17110,313438,313437,44],"class_list":["post-906967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-data-centres","tag-higher-wages","tag-indeed-hiring-lab","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}