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Google’s spending $10 million to train electricians.
The company announced the grant last week, which is supposed to support an effort to train 100,000 electrical workers and 30,000 apprentices across the US. A shortage of electricians has hampered efforts to add new, clean energy to power grids. And Google and other tech giants need more electricity for energy-hungry AI data centers.
In April, Google shared plans to use AI to speed up the process of connecting new power sources to the grid.
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