Overview

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Channel 4 News that electricians, plumbers and carpenters will be in high demand, predicting data-center capacity will keep doubling each year and that the UK faces a decade of AI infrastructure buildout.
• Nvidia recently earmarked about $100 billion for OpenAI to expand supplies of data-center chips and support training for upcoming AI models.
• A McKinsey analysis estimates a single 250,000-square-foot data center can employ up to 1,500 construction workers during buildout, then sustain roughly 50 full-time maintenance roles with additional spillover jobs.
• Research from Yale’s Budget Lab finds little evidence so far of significant AI-driven labor-market disruption roughly 33 months after ChatGPT’s launch, with observed shifts modest and starting before generative AI scaled.
• BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has cautioned that the U.S. could run short of electricians needed for data-center projects, citing constraints from immigration policy and declining interest in skilled trades.