2030 projection, published April 2026; 2025 baseline of 485 TWh
950 TWhProjected worldwide electricity consumption by data centres in 2030
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Renewable Energy & Data Centres07 / Renewable Energy & Data Centres
Power. Delivery. People who understand both.
Recruit for the technical and commercial realities of energy projects and critical digital infrastructure.
Recruitment intelligence
Market context / 2024
865,000
Estimated jobs in the EU solar sector
Source, scope & methodology
New report: EU solar workforce reaches record heights in 2024, but growth expected to stall in 2025
SolarPower Europe · Published 2025-10-02
Solar-specific employment estimate from the EU Solar Jobs Report 2025; it does not cover all renewables or data centres. The same release forecasts a decline to approximately 825,000 jobs in 2025. The 2024 estimate describes a historical workforce, not current vacancies.
What this means for a hiring brief
Match talent to the actual pipeline.
Workforce planning should distinguish utility-scale development, rooftop activity and manufacturing; assess transferable technical skills against the actual project pipeline rather than assuming sector-wide expansion.
PropertyTalents’ recruitment perspective on the cited research. National and sector indicators do not establish availability for a particular role.
Renewable developmentGrid & energy infrastructureData-centre developmentCritical operations
Data centres / Separate evidence
Power expertise is part of the brief.
Data-centre hiring should test grid and power expertise, commissioning discipline and critical-operations capability alongside development experience.
Source, scope & methodology
Key Questions on Energy and AI — Executive summary
International Energy Agency · Published 2026-04-16
IEA central projection, not an observed outcome or employment forecast. Covers all data centres worldwide. The report describes electricity demand as roughly doubling from its 2025 baseline and highlights grid, supply-chain and financing constraints.
The hiring lens
Related infrastructure. Different expertise.
Decide what the person must deliver before narrowing the search to familiar job titles.
Renewable energy
Assess permitting, grid access, investment cases, construction and long-term asset performance against the actual technology and pipeline.
Data centres
Assess power availability, cooling, complex commissioning and critical operations. Conventional property experience alone does not establish technical fit.
Roles & assessment
Know what good
looks like.
Choose a hiring area to see example roles and the evidence to look for. These are recruitment priorities to discuss, not a list of current vacancies.
Example roles
Renewable Energy Development Director
Data Centre Development Director
What to assess
Plan this hireSite and grid feasibility, permitting, investment cases, stakeholder management and delivery of viable project pipelines.
Compensation contextCompare the role.
Compare the role.
Then compare the package.
Country, responsibility, asset scale and variable pay all change the comparison. Start with a like-for-like brief before asking for a salary range.
How we approach salary benchmarkingYour next hire
Make the brief
work harder.
Use the hiring area selected above, choose your market and take these questions into the next conversation.
Which technology, capacity and project stage are in scope?
Who owns grid, permitting, commissioning and operational risk?
What evidence shows the person can work in this specific technical environment?
The download is a short working brief you can edit. It does not submit an enquiry.
