Workforce Training for the Datacenter Industry
Bringing standards to an industry
that's done waiting.
Whether you run a 5 MW bitcoin mine, a 5 GW AI/HPC data center, or service one of these industries — you're facing the same bottleneck. You can't find qualified people. We fix that.
Sound Familiar?
You can't find qualified technicians
You post jobs. You wait. The resumes don't match. The ones who show up can't do the work. The ones who can do the work leave in a week.
Repairs are overcharged and underdelivered
You send equipment out. It comes back late, half-fixed, and you pay a premium for the privilege. Quality control has left the building.
No viable hiring pipeline
Nobody arrives knowing this work. You're training from scratch every time — and hoping people stick around long enough for it to pay off.
Infrastructure is outpacing education
Power generation, grid services, mining, and high-density compute now need technicians who understand electrical, thermal, networking, and firmware — simultaneously. Traditional programs don't teach this.
This isn't a seminar.
This is workforce infrastructure.
Orange Collar Academy was built by operators — people who have deployed, managed, and trained across more than a gigawatt of live infrastructure. We saw the same problem from every angle: the people don't exist yet.
So we're building them. Not with theory in a classroom, but with hands-on training under instructor oversight, real equipment, and real operational standards.
We teach the skills the work actually requires, and we document what each student can demonstrably do — so an employer reading the record knows exactly what they are looking at.
What We Do
Education
8-week specialty courses in electrical theory, network fundamentals, BTC mining operations, and board-level PSU repair. Built by operators, for operators.
View Programs →Workforce Development
Workplace safety training built to OSHA standards, oil & gas upskill, and intro-to-mining programs. Turning blue collar and white collar into orange collar.
Learn More →Operations
Deployment, full site ops, consolidations, call center, network support, security, and engineering. End-to-end operational capability, staffed by OCA-trained operators.
Our Services →Marketplace
Equipment sales, repair, and warranty services. Student repairs run under instructor oversight, delivering high-quality results at a fraction of the cost.
Browse →Founded by Operators
Bitcoin Mining Institute
Tyler Schmill
LFG Mining
Jose Dehoyos & Jose Dehoyos II
Mindful Mining
Logan Oneill
Three organizations that saw the same problem from different angles — and decided to fix it together.