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A labor shortage is choking off AI data center construction

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A labor shortage is choking off AI data center construction

By some estimates, the U.S. is 58,000 people short of the workforce needed to install the fiber-optic cable that connects data centers to the internet.

An AT&T technician works on a telephone pole, wearing a light green hazard vest with the AT&T logo and a white hard hat
An AT&T technician works on a telephone pole in Covington, Ga.NBC News
By Brian Cheung

Data center construction for artificial intelligence is running into a very physical problem: not having enough humans to install the fiber-optic cable needed to connect the centers to the internet.

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