Meta trains US data centre builders while cutting office staff

Tech giant Meta is launching a free five-week training programme in the United States to address a shortage of skilled workers in the data centre construction sector. Programme graduates are guaranteed a job at a Meta data centre building site. At the same time, the company is reducing the number of office workers.

In the United States, tech giant Meta is cutting office workers on one hand, while actively investing in training new skilled workers on the other. The company is launching a five-week free training programme aimed at preparing workers for data centre construction.

Programme graduates are promised a guaranteed job at a Meta data centre construction site, making it an attractive opportunity for those seeking stable employment in a growing sector. The data centre construction sector is facing an increasingly acute shortage of skilled workers in the US job market, which has become one of the biggest obstacles to expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The data centre boom is linked to advances in artificial intelligence and growing demand for cloud services, which means Meta and other major tech companies must rapidly expand their computing capacity. The shortage of construction sector specialists has become one of the main bottlenecks in this race.

Meta's simultaneous approach of cutting office workers and training builders reflects broader changes in the technology industry, where the share of traditional white-collar jobs is declining, while the need to develop physical infrastructure is growing ever faster.