Microsoft 'ecosystem' to create 86,000 jobs in Singapore by 2026 as skills, sustainability initiatives launched

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SINGAPORE: More than 86,000 new jobs will be created byMicrosoft, its ecosystem of partners and customersin Singapore by 2026, of which more than 50,000 will be skilled IT jobs.
Microsoft announced these figures on Thursday (Nov 17) as it launched two new partnerships with the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) focusing on skills development and sustainability respectively.
The Datacenter Academy, Microsoft's collaboration with ITE, is a five-year commitment from 2023 to equip about 300 ITE students with applied data centre skills. It is one of 12 Datacenter Academy locations globally.
From January, the curriculum will be offered to students across all three ITE Colleges from the work-study diploma programmes in data centre infrastructure and operation, mechanical and electrical services supervision, and logistics and supply chain management.
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