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"But Larry Fink, who runs BlackRock, told me that the companies in his portfolio alone needed 300,000 electricians. What's coming is an infrastructure build out that's being calculated at nine to $10 trillion over the next nine years. A lot of it's data centers, but it's a lot of other stuff too. And we can get into data centers and AI, it's all fascinating to me, but it's all kind of academic if you can't build them. And if you can't build them because of a shortage of skilled labor, that'll go down in history of one of the greatest unforced errors of all time. And that's what people are beginning to realize. We have to reinvigorate the trades, we must, or we're going to be in a level of trouble that's truly unprecedented. Sorry, I know I'm rambling, but every five tradesmen, for every five who retire this year, two replace them. That's what I was gonna ask, do you have any idea how many welders there are in the US right now? I can tell you that whatever the number is, we need 400,000 more. I can tell you we're underwater, like it's worse with electricians right now. I was in Plano, Texas, a couple months ago, got a tour of a data center. Been talking about them for a while, but I hadn't really seen one up close. Oh my God, I mean, amazing. Kind of terrifying, but also kind of awesome. Enormous, I ran into three electricians, all under 30, all making north of 240 grand a year. All debt free. Now, here's the craziest part. All three had been poached three times in the prior 18 months. Now, does that mean that's going on in Sacramento and Phoenix and Tallahassee and Bangor? I don't know, but it's going on in Plano, and it's happening in different areas. The shortages are so acute that the companies don't have time to train. They have to poach. And so great news for an electrician, but it's a little weird for the economy over."
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