Skilled trades become AI's next bottleneck

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AI’s data-centre expansion is turning labor into the bottleneck, with a current trades shortfall around 350,000 expected to exceed 1 million by 2030, driving big tech to fund training programs and offer incentives as they invest hundreds of billions in infrastructure.
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