The cost-free program, America’s Workforce Academy, will end in guaranteed job offers to graduates, the company said in a statement
Meta is investing $115 million to stand up a new training programme for data centre technician jobs, as the social media company races to build the infrastructure to power its AI ambitions.
The cost-free program, America’s Workforce Academy, will end in guaranteed job offers to graduates, the company said in a statement.
A Meta spokesperson said the program will provide generalist training for data centre technicians. Jobs on offer will be full-time roles with general contractors working on Meta’s data centre buildout, she added.
The spokesperson declined to specify how many positions would be available, with which firms and whether they would be union jobs.
The Associated Builders and Contractors, a construction trade group, said it expects to train thousands of people over the course of the program.
The AI revolution is bringing change but also historic opportunities, said Dina Powell McCormick, Meta president and vice-chairman.
The investment is a small part of the $600 billion total Meta has pledged to invest in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over the next three years, as it builds out massive data centres to power CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive bets on AI agent technologies.
Zuckerberg has said his goal is to build AI assistants that can take action autonomously on their users’ behalf to create apps, book appointments and complete transactions.
He embarked on a big-ticket hiring spree last year to enable that vision for “personal superintelligence,” offering $100 million signing bonuses to AI researchers from rival firms like OpenAI.
More recently, he has been carrying out an AI-related restructuring inside Meta, laying off 10% of the workforce, or about 8,000 employees, and reassigning nearly as many others to new units aimed at improving the company’s AI models and tools.
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