Meta’s new America’s Workforce Academy has been widely covered as a response to skilled labor shortages. The company needs electricians, fiber technicians, HVAC specialists, and construction workers to support a rapidly expanding footprint of AI infrastructure and data centers. The logic behind the investment appears straightforward. Demand for infrastructure is growing faster than the labor market can supply the workers needed to build it, so Meta is investing directly in workforce development.
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