Schneider Electric creates professional education platform to address the data center talent shortage

Schneider Electric creates professional education platform to address the data center talent shortage

- Previously known as the APC™ Data Center University, the CPD-accredited platform has evolved to deliver more than one million courses to over 650,000 users globally

- Available in 14 different languages, Schneider Electric University offers easily accessible, vendor-agnostic education to countries where it’s needed most, addressing the industry skills challenge

Dubai, UAE – Schneider Electric™, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced a series of updates to its vendor-agnostic and CPD-accredited digital education platform, Schneider Electric University. Available in 14 languages and accessible globally for free online, the dedicated professional development platform directly addresses the data center sector skills gap, helping industry stakeholders to upskill and stay up to date with the latest technology, sustainability, and energy efficiency initiatives affecting the sector.

To-date, Schneider Electric University has delivered more than one million courses to over 650,000 data center users, with +180 countries represented by its global user-base. The new updates to the Schneider Electric University Data Center Certified Associate (DCCA) qualification include fundamentals of power, cooling, racks, and physical security, and guidance on how to optimize data center designs to drive resilience, energy efficiency and sustainability. It’s newest courses, for example, include Optimizing Cooling Layouts for the