I helped block a data center in my town and learned how much power locals have

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Jesse Brooks stands in front of fence and wooded area.
Jesse Brooks, who helped push for a data center moratorium in his town.

Jesse Brooks

This blue-collar trade no one is talking about could help you land a fast-growing AI job

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Fiber optic cables
Fiber technicians are in high demand as data center development booms nationwide.

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A massive Oracle data center planned for rural Michigan secures $16 billion in funding

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A digital rendering of a huge data center campus planned for rural Michigan
A digital rendering of the huge 1-gigawatt data center campus planned for Saline, Michigan, which will serve Oracle's AI business.

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Utilities are spending $1.4 trillion to power the AI boom, and it's hiking up electric bills across the US

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Entergy
An Entergy power plant in Texas.

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The Midwest's rise to America's second-biggest data center hub is fueled by these key states

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Meta data center Wisconsin
Construction for a Meta data center campus is underway in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

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Inside the $350 million missile silo that could become a data center

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As fears of global conflict grow, tech companies are racing to protect servers by turning nuclear missile silos and abandoned mines into ultra-secure data centers.

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

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Matt Garman AWS CEO
Matt Garman AWS CEO

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Meet the ICE contractor pivoting from detention facilities to 'man camps' for data center construction workers

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Stargate Abilene Texas
Giant data centers like the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas are under construction across the country.

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Oracle lays off employees as it curbs costs during AI buildout

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Larry Ellison
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

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10 power players behind the data center debt boom

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John Greenwood, Quynh Tran, and Joe Jackson
Three of the financiers behind the boom: Goldman Sachs' John Greenwood, SMBC's Quynh Tran, and Apollo's Joe Jackson.

Goldman Sachs;SMBC; Apollo

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