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Meta, National Urban League and construction groups launch $115 million training program with job guarantees for data-center work
Meta, the National Urban League, Associated Builders and Contractors and CBRE launched a program to train workers for skilled trades. The initiative targets construction of AI infrastructure with paid training and job guarantees.
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Meta, the National Urban League, the Associated Builders and Contractors and CBRE announced America’s Workforce Academy, a $115 million program to train Americans for skilled trades at no cost. Fortune reported that the program will pay participants while they learn and guarantee every graduate a job building AI infrastructure, mostly data centers.
The first sites open this year in Louisiana, Ohio, Indiana and Texas.
Graduates will receive an industry-recognized credential. The construction industry needs nearly 350,000 additional workers this year, the average American welder is now 55 years old, and more than two million skilled-trade jobs could sit unfilled by 2030, according to the report.
Two new reactors came online at Plant Vogtle in Georgia after America had gone some 30 years without building a nuclear reactor from scratch.
The program is the largest private-sector commitment to the skilled trades with a job guarantee in American history, Fortune reported. When a participant is accepted, a contractor issues a job offer on the spot, conditioned only on finishing the course.
