Hardest part of building US data centers? Finding electricians, plumbers and welders
DominiqueCAPaul · x · 2026-09-27
Building data centers in the US right now is bottlenecked less by chips than by a shortage of electricians, plumbers and welders, argues DominiqueCAPaul.
Germany, meanwhile, has trained these skilled trades at scale for decades through its apprenticeship system — an underrated European advantage if Europe ever commits to building AI infrastructure at scale.
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