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DCYB-NET
Community
An operator-grade community for engineers, technicians, designers, builders, and operators across the digital infrastructure stack.
Data Center Youngbloods · Status: Active
The next
generation of
digital infrastructure.
DCYB is the community and talent pipeline for the next generation of data centers. The facilities behind AI, cloud, and everything connected.
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/ 01 — What we do
We're not building another forum.
We're building the workforce.
Digital infrastructure is the physical layer behind every byte. It runs on people — and the industry is critically short of them. DCYB exists to compound that workforce, in public, with the operators who will define the next decade.
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DCYB-FLOW
Talent Pipeline
Sourcing, training, and certifying the people who will build, power, cool, and run the next decade of compute.
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DCYB-LINK
Industry Bridge
Connecting hyperscalers, colos, OEMs, and energy partners to a vetted network of practitioners and emerging talent.
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DCYB-NODE
Education & Events
High-signal programming — cohorts, certifications, IRL convenings — designed for the realities of the industry, not the slideware.
/ The DCYB Wire — Press Index
Every Story. One Wire.
The next biggest news outlet for the next generation of digital infrastructure — national financial media, founder features, and the syndicated wire.
19Links
11Stories
925Outlets
119.8MMonthly Reach
106Countries
/ 02 — In the news
DCYB In The News.
Coverage Across National Financial Media.
925 Outlets · 119.8M Monthly Reach · 106 Countries
July 11, 2026 · Globe Newswire
Data Center Youngbloods Expands Global Talent Pipeline as Demand for Digital Infrastructure Accelerates.
Yahoo Finance
AP News
Fidelity
Business Insider
Globe Newswire
StreetInsider
From the coverage02 / 06
“Everyone is asking where the power will come from. Far fewer people are asking where the people will come from.”
/ 03 — Why now
The compute era is power-bound and people-bound.
Capital is flowing. Permits are clearing. Substations are being built. The constraint is no longer dollars or designs. It is the practitioners who can stand sites up, run them at 99.999%, and train the next class behind them.
DCYB closes that gap.
/ AI DemandCRITICAL
+220%
DC power demand growth
Global data center power demand projected to rise 220% by 2030 versus 2023, up from a 165% estimate just one year ago.
33%
Forecast revised UP 33% YoY · Goldman 2026
/ InfrastructureHIGH
$3T+
Sector investment by 2030
Hyperscale, colocation, and edge buildouts. JLL frames a 14% CAGR supercycle through 2030 across power, cooling, network, and shell.
14%
Sector CAGR through 2030 · JLL 2026
/ Talent GapCRITICAL
53%
Operators citing hiring difficulty
Biggest gaps sit in junior and mid-level operations, mechanical, and electrical roles. More than half the industry cannot fill them.
53%
Operators reporting difficulty · Uptime 2026
/ WindowNOW
5 yrs
To build the workforce
The next half-decade defines who builds, and who watches, the AI-era backbone.
40%
Year 2 of 5, build window elapsed · DCYB outlook
/ 04 — DCYB CERTIFIED PARTNER
Stand with the
next generation.
The industry is at a handoff. The people who built data center infrastructure are starting to pass it to the generation that will run it for the next forty years. The companies that win the talent war are the ones building that relationship now, not when the gap is already costing them.
DCYB sits in the middle of that handoff. We bring together the next generation of operators, engineers, and builders, and we connect them to the companies serious about their future. A DCYB Certified Partner is a company that showed up early and stood with that generation while it mattered.
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DCYB Certified Partner
The companies building the future, standing with the people who will run it.
DCYB Certified Partner marks a company as an active partner of DCYB, publicly committed to engaging the next generation of operators, engineers, and builders. The badge certifies a real, ongoing relationship, displayed on the company's materials and on the DCYB platform alongside the community they support. The badge certifies the partnership is active. It does not represent an audit or ranking of the company.
Supporter
/ TIERFounding cohort rate
FIRST COHORT
- Certified Partner badge
- Listing on the DCYB partners page
- Recognition across the DCYB community
Request pricing
Partner
/ TIERFounding cohort rate
FIRST COHORT
- Everything in Supporter
- Regular presence across DCYB social channels
- Inclusion in partner content
- Standing connection to the talent network
Request pricing
LIMITED SPOTSAnchor
/ TIERFounding cohort rate
FIRST COHORT · LIMITED SPOTS
- Everything in Partner
- Featured placement
- Co-branded content and interviews
- Priority presence at DCYB events
- First access to the talent pipeline
Request pricing
Founding rates are offered to the first cohort only, then close permanently. In return, founding partners agree to be named publicly as a DCYB founding partner, to provide one endorsement, and to let DCYB reference the relationship in outreach.
/ 05 — Recent partnership
Built in lockstep with the industry.
DCYB is in formal partnership with Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) — the global community of professionals building the digital infrastructure of the modern world. Together, we bring the next generation directly into rooms with the people running it.
/ Previous collaborationimasons.org
Infrastructure Masons
The global non-profit community of executives and professionals advancing the digital infrastructure industry. Members include hyperscalers, colos, OEMs, A&E firms, and operators across six continents.
Members
19,665+
Reach
Global
/ Featured collaborationCompleted
iM EMERGING PROFESSIONALS · DCYB
Future You — Build It Now.
A direct-access session for those newer to the industry. Live panel with five senior leaders, followed by 10-minute breakout rooms — the kind of access you don't get from the outside.
Date
Apr 16
Format
Virtual
Speakers
5 leaders
/ Featured panel
- Carrie CharlesCEO, Broadstaff
- Michael NimethCRO, Salute
- Brooke PetosaVP, Tradition Energy
- Indigo PintoCo-Founder, IBB Solutions
- Santiago SuinagaSVP, Stream Data Centers
The next generation of digital infrastructure won't be built in keynote rooms — it'll be built in the small-group sessions where seniors hand the playbook to the people coming up.
DCYB · iM Emerging Professionals
/ 06 — Built by
Luke Adams.
Founder · Operator · Allocator
REF · LA-001On the network
Luke Adams is Co-Founder of Data Center Youngbloods and an Investment Analyst at DPGlobal Assets, where he works hands-on across the full financial and technical lifecycle of digital infrastructure projects, from due diligence through the detailed analysis behind AI infrastructure development. His focus is understanding what actually goes into building a data center, and everything that has to be evaluated and approved before a project breaks ground.
He holds the complete IDCA certification stack, DCIE, DCIS, and DCES, and completed the PTC Beyond Academy Master Class, deepening his expertise across power, cooling, sustainability, and the global digital infrastructure landscape. As a Partner and Financial Analyst at Pura Vida Data Centers, he led the research and built the investor presentation for the project, which is in pre-development as it advances toward its vision of bringing AI infrastructure to Costa Rica, and he presents the opportunity directly to investors.
Luke has spent the last two years immersed in the industry from the inside, engaging directly with its leaders at the events shaping its future. He has become a recognized voice for the next generation, sharing his perspective on NEDAS Live with Ilissa Miller and on JSA TV through the Datacloud Talent in Tech program, where he spoke about what drew him into digital infrastructure, why curiosity is the most important skill a young professional can bring, and his vision for a more sustainable, human-centered industry.
Alongside his co-founder JohnPaul Adams, Luke founded Data Center Youngbloods to close the workforce gap in the biggest infrastructure buildout of our lifetime. The mission is direct. Connect the next generation to careers building the systems that power the AI era.
/ 07 — Case study
Incubation In Action.
How DCYB Ventures takes a company from the network to a hyperscale campus — proof the model builds real infrastructure.
DCYB Ventures · PortfolioPura Vida Data Centers.
Co-developed by Luke Adams, Pura Vida Data Centers is a planned 100-to-120-megawatt hyperscale campus in Guanacaste, Costa Rica — positioning Latin America as the next AI infrastructure hub on a renewable-led grid.
Physical infrastructure and human infrastructure, together: the campus expands where AI gets built, while DCYB trains the workforce that builds and runs it.
“Data centers follow more than demand. They follow power, connectivity, political stability, and long-term planning. Costa Rica checks many of those boxes.”
100–120 MW
Planned hyperscale capacity
Guanacaste, CR
Campus location
Renewable-led
Costa Rica grid profile
$3T
Projected AI buildout by 2030
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Apply
DCYB members move to the front of the queue.
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Review
Every application lands on the founder's desk.
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Build
Operator playbooks, brand support, weekly cadence.
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Launch
DCYB channels, warm intros, press, and hiring.
/ 08 — The deck
The Master Deck.
The full DCYB narrative — the talent gap, the three-pillar platform, the workforce layer, and the ask. Built for operators, investors, and associations shaping the next decade of digital infrastructure.
- 2.4MOpen Roles GloballyTalent gap by 2030 · Uptime Institute
- 3Pillar PlatformCommunity · Training · Placement
- 400+Members & GrowingOperators, engineers, founders
- 119.8MMedia ReachAcross 926 outlets in 2026
Sources cited · JLL · Uptime Institute · Goldman Sachs · S&P Global
The deck library
/ 09 — Events
The first
of many.
Proud to put this event together. It is the first of many, so do not miss the next one. Our team learned something from every person who walked through the door. The conversations were extraordinary, and a reminder of why DCYB exists.
DCYB is growing fast. We will replicate this in hubs worldwide and collaborate at conferences everywhere. Reach out to learn more.
Cocktail hour. Cannes seafront, Datacloud Global Congress week.
The easel goes magenta. The conversations get sharper.
The first DCYB cohort, in one frame, in one place.
/ EDITION
Inaugural
/ LOCATION
Cannes, France
/ ALONGSIDE
Datacloud Global Congress
/ NEXT
Announcing soon
/ 10 — Get involved
Tell us where you fit.
Partnership, collaboration, sponsorship, hiring, training, community, funding — unlimited ways to plug in. One form. We'll route you to the right person on our side.
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/ 11 — Book a meeting
Get on the calendar.
Pick a slot that works. 30 minutes, on Google Meet.
Or send a request — we'll confirm via email