US Needs Blue-Collar Workforce To Compete

Meta president Dina Powell McCormick said at the Axios AI Summit in Washington, D.C., that the United States will need a "whole new workforce," including roughly 500,000 electricians within two years to build AI infrastructure. Her remarks, amid Meta and Big Tech workforce reshaping and data-center expansion, highlight rising demand for tradespeople to support AI deployment and physical systems behind chips and models.