Mark Zuckerberg · China · Donald Trump · Meta · Jerome Powell · Fortune Technology
A 5-week course and a guaranteed job: Meta commits $115 million to solve the skilled-trades shortage stalling its AI build-out
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Trade jobs are the future, and Meta knows it.
Key facts
- Mark Zuckerberg and Meta also pledged $50 million to Sacramento State in January to build state-of-the-art STEM facilities and an AI center, which Gov
- America needs an estimated $10 trillion in infrastructure investment by 2033 to modernize aging systems and build new energy, digital, and AI infrastructure,” CEO Larry Fink said in March
- Even though seven in 10 Americans oppose building data centers near where they live, Meta is pushing ahead with its plan to invest $600 billion in U.S. data center development by 2028
- The academy is strongly aligned with President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, which aims to fuel a “blue-collar resurgence
Summary
Meta is committing $115 million this year to provide free training and a guaranteed job upon the program’s completion. “America’s Workforce Academy is our commitment to building that workforce with the same ambition and long-term thinking we bring to the technology itself,” said Rachel Peterson, Meta’s vice president of data centers. The initiative comes as Americans debate the increasingly unpredictable value of a four-year college degree and uncertainty over the future of white-collar work. The academy’s graduates will earn an industry-recognized National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) credential and an America’s Workforce Certificate.