Electricians
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Adelman: The United States faces a shortage of two million electricians
“We're short two million electricians in the country. Two million.”
Adelman: U.S. electricians are currently earning almost $200,000 a year
“Electricians are making almost 200,000 a year right now.”
Developers build trailer camps for traveling electricians in smaller data center markets
“There's a lot of that at data center sites where you are bringing the labor especially in these tier three, tier four markets, and providing places for them to live and eat and stay so that they can be near the job. Because, you know, 40 miles outside Jackson,…”
Data center construction relies heavily on a 'travel nurse' model for electricians
“The journey part of it or the travel part of it, just like travel nurses, there's a lot of that. It was all over our marketplace.”
Hawkins: Electrician costs have tripled over the last decade
“Without a doubt. Yeah, the electrician the cost for electricians You know, I'm going to give you a, you know, estimate has tripled in the time I've been in the business. Yeah. In the last decade.”
Katti: Skilled labor shortages will become an increasing bottleneck for AI expansion
“No, I think there is definitely a shortage of electricians, plumbers, all kinds of trades, you name it. So anything we can do to train more folks to be able to do those, there are very well-paying jobs that a lot of us, all of the hyperscalers, all of the labs…”
Hershman: 85% of solar labor is mechanical, not skilled electrical
“If you think about a solar project,
You know, probably 85 to 90% of that is really, you know, labor and mechanical labor, right?
You are, we're putting posts in the ground, we're bolting together racking systems, and we're installing modules.
And then, you kno…”
Tiwari: Near-term AI power bottlenecks are electricians, steel, and physical components
“Like, you can't get steel. You can't get you can't find enough electricians to build out, you know, the power infrastructure. Substations, transformers, air chillers. These are, like, very specific power infrastructure needed to just get to a point where you c…”
Siemiatkowski: Non-tech SMBs will buy off-the-shelf software rather than vibe code
“I don't think the plumbing firm, the electrician of the future will code the VibeCode this themselves. Definitely not. They will buy off-the-shelf products for this.”
Patel: Electrician and plumber wages are skyrocketing from AI expansion
“Electricians wages are skyrocketing, you know, et cetera. Right. Like the plumbers wages are skyrocketing.”
Huang: Electricians supporting AI infrastructure are seeing paychecks double
“The number of the late skilled labor that's necessary to support this new industry in the near term, it'll be enormous. Let's just face it. I'm so excited to hear that electricians are seeing their paychecks double.”
Sununu: Electricians, plumbers, and mechanics will be tomorrow's millionaires
“The challenge you're gonna have is the electricians, the plumbers the mechanics, these guys are making a fortune now, and I love it. These are tomorrow's millionaires.”
Chamath claims specialized power grid electricians earn up to $800,000 annually
“These electricians now get paid five, six, seven, 800,000 dollars a year, which by the way, just FYI, is more than most engineers in Silicon Valley, ok?”
Luria: AI data center technicians earn double and fly on private jets
“If you're an electrician right now, or an HVAC technician, boy are you making bank. You're getting flown on private jets to, and making twice as much money, so you can install a data center.”
Oetting: Trade labor robotics is much further off than software automation
“Maybe robotics will get there and there'll be, you know, a real sort of conflict between, you know, whatever robot can do electrical work and electricians. But I think that's much farther off than you know, automating low-level web design.”
Pichai: Mismatch between electrician workforce supply and projected AI energy demand
“If you look at the number of electricians leaving the workforce, Versus suddenly all of us, and you project out this demand, there's a huge mismatch, right?”
Hamilton: Clean Energy Transition Needs 1 Million More Electricians
“We need, like, another million electricians where we need a 104 113,000 construction workers, 764,000 manufacturing workers. This is across all clean energy sectors.”
Del Chiaro: Pending proposal restricts solar installations to licensed electricians
“There's a proposal right now pending before a licensing board called the California Contractor Licensing Board that would require solar and storage distributed to be only installed by electricians.”
Reyes: On-the-job electrical training slows project timelines and cuts profits
“It's not just a matter of, hey, yeah, let me hire people, and then, because you have to go with them through training, and so it might take you a month to two months for them to be ready to finally go out on the field, know how to interact with customers, and …”
Pontecorvo: Median Bay Area electrician salary is roughly $90,000
“The median salary for an electrician in the Bay Area is about 90,000 dollars, and a lot of people make six figures.”
On-the-Job Apprentice Training Cuts Into Electrical Contractor Profits
“Because it's not just a matter of, hey, yeah, let me hire people, and then, because you have to go with them through training, and so it might take you a month to two months for them to be ready to finally go out on the field, know how to interact with custome…”
Contractors Cannot Hire Experienced Electricians Because Everyone Is Employed
“That is correct. That is correct. Cause all the people that currently know how to do the work, they're currently busy. I mean, if they're currently taken by other companies and then now they're getting paid really, really good.”
Bay Area Electricians Earn a Median Salary of $90,000
“The median salary for an electrician in the Bay Area is about 90,000 dollars, and a lot of people make six figures.”
Electricians Can Earn as Much as Engineers and Outearn Teachers
“Showing showing how much money they can make, that, that is just the key. Because they can make just as much as, you know, an engineer. They can make more, you know, than a teacher. They can make more than You know, a person that will spend their time, you kno…”