{"id":985821,"date":"2026-01-16T11:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985821"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:54:44","slug":"microsoft-and-googles-new-talent-war-is-moving-from-ai-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/microsoft-and-googles-new-talent-war-is-moving-from-ai-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Google\u2019s new talent war is moving from AI to \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, among other have lately been in an AI war in the Silicon Valley over researchers and data scientists. But as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom matures, a new \u201ctalent war\u201d has emerged: the battle for hiring energy experts. Citing data from Workforce.ai, CNBC has reported that energy-related hiring in the tech sector jumped 34% year-on-year in 2024. As of early 2026, the pace remains roughly 30% higher than pre-AI levels.<\/p>\n<p>The report indicates that tech giants are now scrambling to strengthen their \u2018energy teams\u2019 to secure massive amounts of electricity to run their data centres \u2013 which is currently the primary bottleneck for scaling AI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, among other have lately been in an AI war in the Silicon Valley over researchers and data scientists. But as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom matures, a new \u201ctalent war\u201d has emerged: the battle for hiring energy experts. Citing data from Workforce.ai, CNBC has reported that energy-related hiring in the tech sector jumped 34% year-on-year in 2024. As of early 2026, the pace remains roughly 30% higher than pre-AI levels. The report indicates that tech giants are now scrambling to strengthen their \u2018energy teams\u2019 to secure massive amounts of electricity to run their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}