Meta announced Monday the launch of America’s Workforce Academy, a $115 million workforce development initiative designed to prepare thousands of Americans for careers supporting the nation’s rapidly expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure economy.
According to Meta, some of the most stable and high-paying jobs in Alabama over the next decade will be hands-on roles building AI infrastructure, data centers, power generation facilities and modernized grids.
The initiative, launched in partnership with CBRE and Associated Builders and Contractors, is designed to fast-track thousands of Americans into high-demand AI infrastructure jobs. Meta said trainees will be paid throughout the course, with the company fully covering airfare and lodging for the full duration of the four-week program.
“America’s Workforce Academy brings real people, real opportunity: no college debt, getting paid to train for jobs that didn’t exist five years ago and will define the next 20,” Meta said in its press release.
How it works:
- Earn while training: Meta fully funds the intensive four- to five-week boot camp, covering tuition, airfare and lodging, while also providing a daily stipend. There is no cost to participants.
- Guaranteed job pipeline: When a participant is accepted into the academy, a Meta contractor partner issues a guaranteed job offer, conditioned on successful completion of the program.
- Immediate placement: Upon graduation, trainees are employed by that contractor partner and assigned to work on-site at Meta data center construction sites.
Alabama residents can apply for the program at meta.com/AmericasWorkforceAcademy, with the opportunity to be placed at training sites in Ohio, Texas, Louisiana and Indiana.
