For data centre contractors and project owners
Programmes don't slip because the drawings were wrong. They slip because the capability that gates energisation wasn't in that market, and nobody measured it before the dates were locked. Poachd is the capability graph for the AI infrastructure build-out: it shows the depth, scarcity, rate bands and lead times for the data centre electricians, HV operators and commissioning techs your programme depends on — by location, inside your travel fence, with relocation exposure priced separately.
Then, and only then, you find the people: hold forward requirements on a watchlist, see verified capability as it enters the graph, and pay on a confirmed placement.
Step 1
Describe the programme and it is structured into required capability, certifications, headcount, roster and rate band. Nothing gets advertised.
Step 2
Twenty electricians in Brisbane for Q1. Poachd holds that requirement and tells you the moment matching capability joins the network.
Step 3
See who sits inside your travel fence, who is in extended reach and who would only move on a relocation premium, then send a poach request with rate, roster and site.
Step 4
Contact details unlock when the tradesperson opts in. Both sides confirm, and the fee is calculated against the actual rate or salary.
The best people are not looking, so an ad never reaches them. You approach verified capability directly.
Watchlists capture forward demand by trade, location and quarter, and alert you as supply arrives.
Every search is fenced to the site: in-radius, extended reach or relocation-only.
Data centre works are the core, but the same licences sit in mining, utilities, advanced manufacturing, aerospace and council programs. Poachd reads that crossover so you can staff a data centre campus from adjacent industries.
Sydney
Western Sydney availability zones in staged fitout
Melbourne
Truganina / Derrimut campus cluster plus BESS pipeline
Brisbane
Competing with resources sector rosters
Perth
FIFO premiums pull teams away from urban builds
Auckland
Small pool feeding both local campuses and AU rosters
Johor
Sedenak and Kulai campuses absorbing teams faster than the state can license them
Singapore
Moratorium-constrained capacity, so commissioning talent commutes to Johor
Jakarta
Emerging hyperscale pipeline with a shallow HV commissioning bench
Tokyo
Inzai and Tokyo Bay clusters competing with grid and rail programs
Osaka
Keihanna campus growth pulling from advanced manufacturing
Seoul
Semiconductor fabs and AI campuses bidding for the same HV licences
Mumbai
Navi Mumbai landings scaling ahead of verified commissioning depth
Chennai
Ambattur and Siruseri clusters plus cable landing works
Hyderabad
Hyperscale campuses at Chandanvelly and Shamshabad drawing controls teams
Kuala Lumpur
Cyberjaya and Bukit Jalil builds competing with Johor for the same licensed teams
Batam
Nongsa landing point campuses inside the Singapore latency ring
Taipei
Fab expansions and AI hosting builds absorbing HV and controls capability
Northern Virginia
Largest data centre concentration on earth
Dallas–Fort Worth
Fastest growing AI campus corridor
Phoenix
Semiconductor fabs competing for the same licences
Columbus
Hyperscaler build-out against a thin local pool
Atlanta
Douglas and Coweta County campuses with the fastest load growth in the southeast
Abilene–West Texas
Gigawatt megacampus demand against almost no resident critical-power pool
Salt Lake City
West Jordan and Eagle Mountain campuses plus grid reinforcement works
Reno–Tahoe
TRIC campuses and battery manufacturing bidding for the same electricians
Chicago
Elk Grove and Aurora clusters with deep union HV capability
Santa Clara–Bay Area
Power-constrained retrofits and AI hosting upgrades at the highest rate floor in the US
Dublin
Grid moratorium pushing capability into Nordics and mainland programs
London & Slough
Slough, Docklands and the new AI growth zones drawing on the same M4 teams
Amsterdam
Middenmeer and Schiphol-Rijk builds inside a hard grid connection queue
Frankfurt
Largest interconnect market in Europe, competing with grid and rail programs
Madrid & Aragón
Zaragoza megacampuses making Iberia the fastest growing EU corridor
Oslo & Nordics
Cheap firm power and cooling, but a small pool spread across remote sites
Warsaw
Central European hub supplying mobile teams to Germany and the Nordics
Riyadh & Dammam
Sovereign AI campuses staffed largely by imported HV and commissioning capability
Abu Dhabi & Dubai
Gigawatt-scale programs on compressed schedules with heavy expatriate mobility
Modelled from ABS/BLS and equivalent national electrician employment counts, published data centre construction pipelines and the 3–4 approaches per worker per year observed in the sector. Rate bands are base hourly pay in local currency for a data-centre-grade electrician, benchmarked August 2026 against enterprise agreement and collective-agreement scales (ETU/NECA in AU, CIF-Connect SEO in IE, JIB in UK), IBEW local scale and Davis-Bacon determinations in the US, and published public-works labour unit prices in JP/KR. They exclude on-costs, allowances, per diem and union fringe packages, which can add 25–60% to the total cost of an hour. Estimates, not platform counts.
Name the trade, the city and the quarter. We tell you as the capability arrives.
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