The US needs a blue-collar workforce boom to compete in AI, Meta president says

Meta's president, Dina Powell McCormick, says the US will need a whole new workforce, including hundreds of thousands of electricians, to win the AI race.

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• Meta's president said the US needs a "whole new workforce" to compete in the AI race.
• The US will need 500,000 electricians in 2 years to build AI infrastructure, Dina Powell McCormick said.
• "These are the real heroes that are building the very infrastructure that will help us win," she said.

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