As the global community frets over the potential for ChatGPT to usurp the roles of programmers, tech behemoths in Silicon Valley, including Meta, Google, and OpenAI, are contending with a different kind of crisis: a dire scarcity of electricians. These positions, traditionally viewed as 'less technologically sophisticated' blue-collar roles, have unexpectedly emerged as highly coveted. At the construction site of a data center in Virginia, the yearly earnings for proficient electricians have skyrocketed to over $200,000 (roughly 1.4 million yuan), a sum that significantly outstrips the salaries of numerous white-collar employees at prominent corporations.
