New research from Indeed shows that some of the fastest-growing tech jobs are now electricians, installers, maintenance workers, and engineers building the data centers that power AI. Data center job postings have more than doubled over the past two years, even as overall US job openings fell. Today, six out of every 1,000 US job
Residents of a rural Texas county say they want more control over the gigantic AI infrastructure projects sprouting in their backyards. Nearly 900 residents of Grimes County, the site of Elon Musk’s planned 100-million-square-foot Terafab semiconductor factory, signed a petition calling for more stringent regulations on large infrastructure projects that receive public incentives. The residents
Elon Musk is reviving one of his famed hiring tactics as he recruits skilled trades workers for the AI data center buildout by his rocket company, SpaceX. Musk, in an X post last week, said SpaceX is hiring “exceptional engineering & skilled trades talent to build & operate the most powerful AI supercomputer clusters on
Microsoft kept its capital spending forecast unchanged on Wednesday, becoming one of the first data center giants to maintain control of the industry’s rampant AI spending. Shares rose about 8% on the news. Earlier this year, the company said it planned to spend $190 billion on capital expenditures this calendar year. On Wednesday’s earnings call,
America’s rapidly growing fleet of electric vehicles could become an unexpected source of electricity storage as the country races to meet growing demand for AI energy. That’s according to Redwood Materials, a startup founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, which now recycles more than 70% of all batteries in North America. With millions of
OpenAI is pushing to build community support for a new data center planned in Georgia in an apparent effort to avoid the kind of backlash that is emerging against AI infrastructure projects across the United States. The ChatGPT maker on Wednesday revealed plans to build “Project Camellia,” an at least $20 billion data center campus