The AI boom is creating data center jobs that pay more
THE SO WHAT
AI data centers paying a $10/hour premium for electricians and techs turns power and facilities talent into a competitive bottleneck, not just GPUs. If you rely on colo or are building your own sites, start treating local skilled labor availability and wage inflation as first-order constraints in your capacity planning.
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