America needs thousands of blue-collar workers to manufacture our AI future

The future of artificial intelligence may depend less on coders than on construction workers, electricians and factory technicians. Tech companies are pouring money into new artificial intelligence (AI) data centers at an astounding clip, with Alphabet, Microsoft , Meta and Amazon expected to spend roughly $700 billion this year alone. And that doesn't include the costs of grid modernization and semiconductor capacity. But those ambitions keep running into the same problem – there aren't enough