Rewiring Ed dollars to workforce, blue states' chances at Trump money, and $3.9 billion in grant listings.
Plus, another AI-invested company starts a construction apprenticeship partnership.
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The first Ed-by-DOL grant drops. Will it do what it intends?
Trump II hurting Trump II’s workforce efforts, a reprise.
Do blue states have a chance in federal workforce projects?
Toplines.
Big things to keep an eye on if you work on getting people to work.
NVIDIA, ACS start AI infrastructure apprenticeship partnership.
On Monday, Adaptive Construction Solutions announced a partnership with NVIDIA—the people making the chips that let AI do AI stuff—to add 10,000 apprentices to build out AI infrastructure and the energy infrastructure needed to power it.
The release announcing the partnership identifies what is, to use a technical term, a whole mess of construction occupations relevant to AI infrastructure—from electricians to pipefitters to ironworkers. Per the release, NVIDIA will address “domain technology, curriculum support, and ecosystem coordination to help employers standardize training for the modern AI infrastructure era.” The chipmaker also will connect employers and Registered Apprenticeship providers.
That makes it the second consecutive week with an announcement of a construction partnership involving one of the companies key to American AI’s development. Last week, the North America’s Building Trades Unions and OpenAI—the ChatGPT folks—announced a five-year, $1.5 million partnership.
AI is in a weird place, to put it mildly. AI’s been pitched as creating job loss if it’s successful or if it’s a failure. That has raised policymaker anxiety as The AI Jobs haven’t really appeared (in part because the idea of there being AI Jobs tends to misunderstand AI’s current role as a nifty tool, not an out-and-out replacement for workers).
“AI infrastructure” jobs—usually traditional trades role needed to build data centers and other stuff needed for AI to work—have become a nice thing for political leaders to point to if they’re on the “AI will create all the jobs” side of the conversation. I suspect you’ll see more partnerships like this as fields that seemed like sure bets in the previous decade—like cybersecurity and coding—see real job losses due to AI advancements.
This week’s grant listings number: $3.9 billion.
We get a big new Department of Education (A Department of Labor Agency) grant this week.