AI in America has a huge 1.7 million job shortage problem

To deliver on the stock market's bold expectations for AI profits, you actually need human beings to build the data centers and handle a ton of other manual jobs in the supply chain. But that skilled trade labor is getting increasingly scarce. The US will need to fill 1.7 million skilled trades job openings annually through 2035, according to a new report out Wednesday from the Alliance for America's Skilled Trades. Current training programs produce just 55 workers for every 100 needed. The Alliance for America's Skilled Trades was founded by BlackRock (BLK), Ford (F), Google (GOOG) and Carhartt.