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Stefan Hirniak is president of Specialist Staffing Group US.
The U.S. economy is turning the page on the post-Covid era toward an artificial intelligence renaissance. A new generation of companies is attracting unprecedented investment in data centers, computing power and the infrastructure needed to support the next phase of AI development.
For electric utilities, however, that investment is creating a new challenge: delivering the grid infrastructure needed to power AI's rapid expansion. The AI infrastructure race will not be won by capital and electricity alone. As utilities race to expand and modernize the grid, skilled engineers, technicians and project leaders have become critical infrastructure in their own right. Without the workforce to build, operate and maintain the grid, the AI economy simply cannot scale.
By 2030, U.S. data center electricity demand is projected to reach 426 TWh, according to one estimate, placing unprecedented demands on generation, transmission and grid modernization.
