Quartz Just Called It: AI’s Biggest Winners Are Electricians, Not Engineers. $700 Billion In Data Centers Broke Ground This Year. Texas Sparkies Are Clearing $260,000. Your Book Is About To Be The Longest In The Trades.

Quartz ran the headline on June 28. It said the quiet part out loud. “AI’s biggest winners may be electricians, not engineers.” If you pull wire for a living or run a shop that does, that sentence is the most important thing published about your industry this year. It confirms what every union hall and […]

Stargate Just Sucked 340,000 Electricians Into Data Centers. Residential Service Wait Times Are 4 To 8 Weeks. The Shops Who Win AI Mode For Panel Upgrades And EV Chargers Print Money This Summer.

The math has flipped on residential electrical work. Just Construction’s May 28 analysis pegs the unfilled data center workforce gap at 340,000 positions by end of 2026 without major intervention. Permanent data center employment is projected to reach 650,000 by year-end — a 30 percent increase from 2023. MEP engineer vacancies are averaging 4.2 months […]

PJM Capacity Just Cleared at $329 Per Megawatt-Day. Up 833 Percent in Two Summers. Your Residential Customer Is Searching For an Answer. NEC 2026 Changed the Install Conversation. Here Is the Smart-Panel Play.

PJM’s 2026/2027 capacity auction cleared at $329.17 per megawatt-day. Up from $269 the year before. Up from $28.92 two years ago. That is an 833 percent jump in two summers. Translation for your residential customer: their power bill rises again this summer, on top of last year’s rise, on top of the year before. Data […]