Join us for a $12.6M bet on North Texas workers

Compass Datacenters and Texas State Technical College are opening the first dedicated data center training facility in North Texas. Built to put local people into high-paying careers, without a four-year degree. 

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MEI Students in a data center workforce development program complete hands on electrical and technical training while wearing safety glasses in a modern learning environment.

Compass is donating a $12.6M, hands-on data center training  facility to TSTC

Transforming it into a dedicated facility where MEI Data Center Pathway Program students will learn the mechanical, electrical and IT systems that keep modern data centers operational. Not on simulations. On the real equipment, in a real facility, built to mirror the environments they’ll work in from day one.  

When complete, Compass’ Red Oak campus will employ 400+ full-time workers in these roles. With this new hands-on training center, Texas State Technical College will help build the local pipeline to prepare students for opportunities like these, right in their backyard. The facility is one of several significant investments Compass is making in the community as part of its Red Oak campus development. 

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Building the Future Data Center Workforce

When Compass Datacenters founded the MEI (Mechanical, Electrical and Information Technology) Data Center Pathway Program in partnership with Texas State Technical College, the goal was clear: open real doors into high-paying careers and train the workforce the industry urgently needs. Research shows more than half a million skilled trade jobs go unfilled every year. Not because the work isn’t there, because the trained workers aren’t. For every person entering a skilled trade today, 20 positions sit empty. And the gap is growing. 

A four-year degree isn’t for everyone. For people ready to work, ready to build and ready to learn, this program is a direct route to careers that pay well, grow fast, and aren’t going anywhere. 

A instructor in a red Texas State Technical College shirt demonstrates hands-on mechanical equipment disassembly to MEI Data Center Pathway Program students in a workshop lab.

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