AI boom is fueling demand for skilled trades—and demand for technicians, HVAC workers, and electricians is soaring, with six-figure salaries to match

Big Tech is cutting office jobs while also fueling a surge in six-figure skilled trade roles for Gen Z—demand for technicians ...

How the red-hot AI data center boom is igniting demand for a new, lucrative career path: Trade workers

While anxiety around AI replacing white-collar jobs has reached a fever pitch, the data center boom is creating lucrative ...
Las Vegas Sun

BlackRock Launches $100 Million Philanthropic Initiative to Power the Next Generation of American Workers in Skilled Trades

BlackRock today announced a $100 million philanthropic initiative to expand economic opportunity and power the next generation of Americas ...
Onrec

AI can’t build data centers: global demand for skilled trades soars in the AI era, growing 3x faster than professional roles

Skilled trades are the primary limiting factor to growth: for every 100 young people entering the manufacturing sector, 102 ...
Charlotte Observer

Black workers still underrepresented in skilled trades

Demand for skilled workers in the trades is at a record high, as you might have heard. There’s a lack of workers currently employed in the trades - that is, welders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians ...

TV host Mike Rowe slams schools for portraying skilled trades as a ‘consolation prize’—when he’s met data center electricians making $280K a year

America pushed a generation toward college—now it’s short hundreds of thousands of skilled workers, and “Dirty Jobs” host ...

Cleaning Gains Recognition as Skilled Trade Amid Michigan Workforce Growth

Cleaning recognized as a skilled trade in Michigan as workforce growth rises, driven by demand, training, and higher ...

Canada’s Construction Labour Crisis: How the Skilled Trades Shortage Is Reshaping Real Estate Development

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / March 13, 2026 / Canada's real estate development sector is facing a challenge that no ...