Meta wants to train Americans to build its data centers — and is offering a free 5-week program to teach you…
- America's Workforce Academy is a $115m Meta training scheme to support construction roles
- Meta knows the US will need hundreds of thousands of skilled tradespeople
- Previous Level-Up fiber training scheme received 35k applicants in one week
Every time a hyperscaler announces a new data center project, a complementary announcement around AI upskilling and community funding usually arrives, but this time, Meta is taking citizen support one step further.
Under the company's new America's Workforce Academy (AWA), it will support training for careers that support the broader data center boom across jobs like construction and infrastructure.
Meta will use AWA to commit $115 million in funding in 2026, making it one of the largest private sector investments in trade skills in the US.
Amid the ongoing AI boom, hyperscalers are quickly realizing that giving workers AI literacy skills alone isn't enough, but that they're facing limitations as to how...
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