Google has announced a new $50 million commitment to help train 300,000 workers across the United States for skilled trade jobs. The funding will come through Google.org and will support training programs for electricians, welders, plumbers, pipefitters, manufacturing workers, fiber technicians and other skilled trades.

Google is expanding its total skilled trades support to $50 million to help prepare more than 300,000 American workers.

Google is putting $50M into training 300,000 skilled-trades workers, as the AI build-out runs short of the electricians and welders who build data centres.