The Data Center Jobs Boom: A High-Paying Career Pivot Opportunity

Data center jobs are booming, offering high-paying career pivot opportunities, especially for skilled trades and non-tech ...
The Indianapolis Star

Data centers bring almost no jobs. Why are we giving them tax breaks? | Opinion

Data centers have almost no local economic effects, with one possible exception. That's the result of my recent study examining the effects of data centers on Texas employment and incomes. Texas ...

Construction workers are earning up to 30% more and some are nabbing six-figure salaries in the data center boom

Trade workers on average are earning almost $10 more each hour working on data center projects compared to peers on other ...

$2.1-billion data center set to break ground in North Texas

Another colossal data center is headed to Texas–and this $2.1-billion campus could soon break ground on a 107-acre site in ...
Columbus Dispatch

Data centers create jobs in central Ohio, but not in ways you might expect

As central Ohio's data center industry keeps booming, critics often lament that the gigantic server warehouses directly employ only several dozen people. But while the number of employees collecting a ...
Technical

Inside the jobs that fuel the data center construction boom

IBEW Local 24 union membership has expanded with data center projects (Courtesy IBEW Local 24) Those invested in the data center industry’s success see it as a driver of local job creation for the ...
Wired

The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy

The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, ...