{"id":207933,"date":"2026-05-02T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/building-trades-unions-emerge-as-a-key-ally-of-tech-giants-in-push-for-ai-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:55:13","slug":"building-trades-unions-emerge-as-a-key-ally-of-tech-giants-in-push-for-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/building-trades-unions-emerge-as-a-key-ally-of-tech-giants-in-push-for-ai-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Building trades unions emerge as a key ally of tech giants in push for AI data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nation\/artificial-intelligence-technology-labor-unions-data-centers-t86361\">Building trades unions emerge as a key ally of tech giants in push for AI data centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nation\/artificial-intelligence-technology-labor-unions-data-centers-t86361\">https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nation\/artificial-intelligence-technology-labor-unions-data-centers-t86361<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 00:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newsday.com\">www.newsday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building trades unions are deeply involved in the creation of America&#8217;s artificial intelligence economy through massive data center projects, echoing the narrative of a national security race with China for AI superiority.<\/li>\n<li>Unionized workers are in high demand for data center construction, leading to rapid growth in union membership and apprentice training, mirroring expansions seen in the 1950s.<\/li>\n<li>These unions are pivotal in countering community opposition and legislative hostility towards data centers, often aligning with traditional Republican pro-business groups and tech companies.<\/li>\n<li>Data center projects are benefiting from union labor efforts, which address concerns like energy shortages, rising bills, and quality-of-life issues, turning public opposition into job opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>Tech giants, such as Google and Oracle, are investing significantly in union training programs to meet the growing need for skilled workers in the AI economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building trades unions emerge as a key ally of tech giants in push for AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.projects.newsday.com\/logos\/nd-fb-share-logo-600x315.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-207933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207935,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207933\/revisions\/207935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}