AI Boom Is Creating More Tech Jobs Than It Destroys

Meta's aggressive data center expansion and the broader AI infrastructure race are generating immediate demand for specialized workers—engineers, technicians, facility managers—faster than automation is displacing roles in software development or customer service. Instead of AI eliminating jobs wholesale, the energy and capital costs of training large models are creating new categories of scarce, high-skill work that can't be outsourced or easily automated. The constraint isn't labor availability. It's physical infrastructure and the technical expertise to build and maintain it.