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Apprenticeship programs
Coverage of Apprenticeship programs in the Nexus archive.
- AI companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands to build data centers
Meta, Google, and BlackRock are funding apprenticeship programs and crash courses to recruit thousands of electricians and carpenters for a historic data center construction boom. The initiative aims to staff data centers as demand for AI infrastructure surges.
- Trade school enrollment is booming. It's mostly a demographic mirage
Trade school enrollment has increased primarily due to Gen Z reaching the age to attend. However, apprenticeship programs remain unable to meet the growing demand for electricians.