(The Center Square) – Home building associations are losing skilled trades workers to data center construction, advocates said.
As artificial intelligence data center expansion explodes across the country, technology executives have placed a greater emphasis on recruiting workers in the skilled trades. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted the next wave of six-figure jobs would come from tradespeople who help build datacenter infrastructure.
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