From Switchboards to Streaming: How CWA Kept Up With a Changing America
CWA began with telephone workers. Today, its members work across telecommunications, media, airlines, public service, higher education, healthcare, manufacturing, high tech, video games, and other industries. The union says it represents workers through roughly 1,200 chartered local unions across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.
Trade Scholarships, Training Grants, and Workforce Programs to Watch as the Data Center Boom Grows
This roundup highlights scholarships, training grants, workforce development programs, and application opportunities tied to the skilled trades, construction, apprenticeship, AI infrastructure, and data center-related workforce needs. Some programs are designed for individual workers or students. Others are grant opportunities for nonprofit training providers, apprenticeship programs, workforce boards, community colleges, or labor-aligned organizations.
Data Center Watch: What Happened This Week — August 30, 2026
This week’s data center news made one thing clear: the data center boom is no longer just a technology story. It is now a labor story, an energy story, a water story, a political story, and a community trust story.
Across the country, AI and cloud computing are driving a massive buildout of new data centers. But the public conversation is changing quickly. Communities are asking tougher questions about electricity use, water demand, local infrastructure, noise, land use, tax incentives, and whether these projects will create meaningful local jobs.
Data Center Watch: Why Labor Needs to Pay Attention to the Data Center Boom
Data centers are not just part of the tech economy. They are part of America’s infrastructure economy.