The company promises people a “fast track” to a career in the trades—as long as workers don’t care about their safety, job security, or right to organize.

Meta’s Training Camp for Building Data Centers is an Anti-Union Scheme

“Learn coding, teach ai, get replaced by AI, go learn electrical work to build ai’s building, get laid off after building complete.” That’s how one Redditor summed up a hypothetical career trajectory in the AI era, capturing the economic whiplash in one sentence. Last month, Facebook parent company Meta put $115 million behind that third step. The company announced its launch of America’s Workforce Academy, a free five-week training program promising “American heroes”—which encompasses basically anyone—a guaranteed construction job offer from the contractors who build Meta’s AI data centers.

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