{"id":228308,"date":"2026-06-08T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/meta-announces-baton-rouge-as-pilot-location-for-ai-job-training-program\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:05:38","slug":"meta-announces-baton-rouge-as-pilot-location-for-ai-job-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/meta-announces-baton-rouge-as-pilot-location-for-ai-job-training-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta announces Baton Rouge as pilot location for AI job training program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/06\/09\/meta-announces-baton-rouge-pilot-location-ai-job-training-program\/\">Meta announces Baton Rouge as pilot location for AI job training program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/06\/09\/meta-announces-baton-rouge-pilot-location-ai-job-training-program\/\">https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/06\/09\/meta-announces-baton-rouge-pilot-location-ai-job-training-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 20:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wafb.com\">www.wafb.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta plans to launch a new program called America\u2019s Workforce Academy to train workers for AI infrastructure jobs with pilot locations in Baton Rouge, Houston, Indianapolis, and Columbus.<\/li>\n<li>The program functions as a four to five week boot camp curriculum aimed at preparing individuals for roles in data center construction and related fields.<\/li>\n<li>Participants will receive pay during their training, and tuition, airfare, and lodging will all be covered by the program.<\/li>\n<li>No prior experience is necessary to participate, and successful graduates will be employed by a partner contractor for Meta in relevant job sectors such as data center construction.<\/li>\n<li>Meta anticipates that jobs in artificial infrastructure, data center construction, power generation, and grid modernization will be highly in-demand over the next decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta announces Baton Rouge as pilot location for AI job training program https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/06\/09\/meta-announces-baton-rouge-pilot-location-ai-job-training-program\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wafb-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/SZZKAWDIB5CIRGYF2VMYF7TVWU.jpg?auth=b2485467154709d2bc57616e6a0023d7c2dc34b3702a90ea8e32cc7b733f7dbb&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228308"}],"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=228308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228310,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228308\/revisions\/228310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}