Google is spending $50 million on 'growing the next generation of American workers' — but at $166 per worker, surely it's not going to get very far?
- Google is spending $50 million training 300,000 skilled-trades workers across more than 20 US states
- Funding comes from Google's AI Opportunity Fund and is being positioned as a public-private partnership model to fulfil upcoming infrastructure-related jobs tied to datacenter and grid buildouts
- This is a small fraction of Google's overall AI skill-related spend of a mammoth $1 billion on AI education and training at US universities
Google is trying to solve a problem that could become a deciding factor in the AI data center buildout of the future: securing skilled manual labor to make it happen.
The company has unveiled plans to invest an additional $50 million into skilled trades training that covers as many as 300,000 jobs across more than 20 states.
The plans mentions the likes of electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, welders, service techs, and sheet metal workers in particular, indicating Google is contending with and proactively acting to...
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