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2026-10-06 Science & Technology

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1 America’s new blue-collar job boom is one nobody saw coming — and it’s just getting started

Inside a sprawling Texas data center campus, blinking tower lights and rows of neatly organized cables power the technology Americans use every day. Keeping it all running, however, takes an army of electricians, mechanics, technicians and construction workers — and the industry says it needs more of them.

"Unfortunately, there was a war on blue-collar jobs a while back and everybody had to get a four-year degree. I’m so glad that’s over with," Compass Datacenters CEO Chris Crosby told Fox News Digital while giving a glimpse behind the scenes of the infrastructure that powers the digital world.

"I am tired of the elitism that this doesn't create jobs," Crosby said, arguing that blue-collar careers deserve to be taken seriously. He pointed to the workers at Compass’s Red Oak campus and the construction crews who built it.

"You tell that to the 900 people who work here on this campus and you tell that to the thousands of construction workers who have worked here for five years plus," he said.

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2 Workers using AI are seeing major benefits – but a gap is emerging

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