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When Ai and skilled labor are discussed together it’s often the looming unemployment that Ai will cause as it replaces skilled workers and allows companies to operate more productively with fewer people. The points that are overlooked in this conversation are the hyper-fixation on “professional” jobs and the labor that will go into the infrastructure that will evidently disemploy so many of our low level computer programmers and copy editors. Leaving this eventuality aside for the moment, the current relationship between human capital and Ai infrastructure is more prosaic. As the Center for Strategic and International Studies illustrates, we’re currently experiencing a dearth of skilled electricians, welders, construction laborers and HVAC technicians, all of whom are considered skilled workers. We don’t have the apprenticeship programs available to meet this demand. While governments and corporations address this, a feasible substitute would be the immigration of skilled workers. This might not be politically viable in the near term. Workers construct the frame of a data center building during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Stargate is a collaboration of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, with promotional support from President Donald Trump, to build data centers and other infrastructure for artificial intelligence throughout the US. The Stargate projects should total at least 7 GW. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg © 2025 Bloomberg Finance LP As things stand under current high-level projections, (those in which the Ai revolution continues to be as significant as the second Industrial Revolution) the US will need an additional 140,000 skilled workers; the low estimate still calls for 63,000. Using craft-labor coefficients that allow us to understand the sort of labor needed to build each new megawatt of data center capacity (man-hours in other words) we see each megawatt of…

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