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Amazon and Microsoft Can Buy GPUs. But U.S. Construction Is Short 439,000 Workers

The AI buildout has an increasingly low-tech bottleneck: people. Reuters Breakingviews reported on September 14 that the U.S. construction industry faces a shortfall of roughly 439,000 workers as data centers compete with housing, transport and industrial projects for skilled labor. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) can finance multibillion-dollar AI campuses and secure GPUs. […]

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Indices· September 14, 2026 at 09:21 PM
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The AI buildout has an increasingly low-tech bottleneck: people. Reuters Breakingviews reported on September 14 that the U.S. construction industry faces a shortfall of roughly 439,000 workers as data centers compete with housing, transport and industrial projects for skilled labor. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) can finance multibillion-dollar AI campuses and secure GPUs. […]

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