{"id":865965,"date":"2026-09-30T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:46:10","slug":"nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-data-center-build-out-could-create-1-million-jobs-and-reshape-the-us-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865965\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: AI data center build-out could create 1 million jobs and reshape the US economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nvidia (NVDA<\/a>) CEO Jensen Huang, sitting on a panel next to SpaceX (SPCX<\/a>) and Tesla (TSLA<\/a>) CEO Elon Musk as corporate AI leaders spent most of the day at the White House<\/a>, said the AI data center build-out will create “probably about a million jobs.” <\/p>\n

Huang added that “this is the first time in probably \u2026 50 years [that] we’re re-industrializing the United States, creating a whole bunch of blue collar jobs.” <\/p>\n

\"NVIDIA<\/a> NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huan, right, and Elon Musk, during an event to mark the launch of the America.gov website, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein) \u00b7 AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein <\/p>\n

As Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi detailed,<\/a> the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades (AAST) \u2014 an initiative launched<\/a> by BlackRock (BLK<\/a>), Carhartt, Ford (F<\/a>), and Google (GOOG<\/a>) \u2014 estimated that the US will need to fill 1.7 million skilled trades job openings annually through 2035. <\/p>\n

Nvidia, Meta (META<\/a>), and Microsoft (MSFT<\/a>) are joining AAST this week. <\/p>\n

Read more: AI in America has a huge 1.7 million job shortage problem<\/a> <\/p>\n

AAST defines<\/a> skilled trade jobs as the 124 occupations \u2014 including carpenters, electricians, mechanics of various kinds, plumbers, and pipe fitters \u2014 that “build, install, operate, maintain, repair, fabricate, or extract the physical materials, products, equipment, systems, and infrastructure the U.S. economy relies on.”<\/p>\n

Current training programs produce just 55 workers for every 100 needed, according to a new AAST report. <\/p>\n

\"Construction<\/a> Construction workers walk to a data center building under construction in Sedenak Tech Park in Johor state of Malaysia, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo\/Vincent Thian, File) \u00b7 ASSOCIATED PRESS <\/p>\n

Huang explained that the US is adding “somewhere between 10, 20 gigawatts a year” of the infrastructure and said the work reaches well beyond the data centers themselves. <\/p>\n

“Don’t forget you got to build a power generation plants,” the AI hardware giant’s chief executive said, adding: “You’ve got construction, you’ve got power cooling, you’ve got pipe fitters.” <\/p>\n

Musk noted<\/a> that “you’ve got to scale energy, you’ve got to scale chip production,” adding that China “has about three times the electricity production of the United States.” <\/p>\n

All in all, according to Huang, “this is our great chance of reshaping our economy and bringing that type of builders and craft back into the United States.” <\/p>\n

Internal AI tools helped us analyze this interview transcript and draft. Editors reviewed, edited, and fact-checked it before publication. <\/p>\n

Click here for the latest economic news and indicators to help inform your investing decisions<\/a> <\/p>\n

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