Dina Powell McCormick says 40,000 applied to Meta-linked workforce academy for data-centre jobs
What was said
""So we launched America's Workforce Academy. Uh we launched it I don't know four months ago. 40,000 Americans applied. We've graduated 250 people >> and we have a 90% retention rate.""
Dina Powell McCormick said Meta created a five-week fast-track training programme, branded “America’s Workforce Academy”, after struggling to hire certain data-centre construction roles including fibre technicians. She said trainees receive safety training and are certified as “job site ready”, and that Meta guarantees graduates a job on one of its data-centre sites, with skills intended to be transferable elsewhere. Powell McCormick said 40,000 people had applied since the programme launched about four months earlier, that 250 had graduated, and that it had a 90% retention rate.
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- Speaker
- Dina Powell McCormick · guest
- Programme
- All-In Podcast
- Episode
- Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta’s Future
- Clip time
- 22:22
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