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Get hired on New Mexico's
data centers
New Mexico is building 2.7 GW of new data centers across 3 sites. This shows you how to get one of those jobs.
3 sites |5,146 workers at peak |Built by Stargate / Oracle / OpenAI / Stack
Still to build
2.7 GW
Total workers on site at peak
5,146
Building sites
3
Why now
Why New Mexico, why now
New Mexico is one of the busiest data-center states in the country, with 3 sites from companies like Stargate / Oracle / OpenAI / Stack, Meta, DOE NNSA / Los Alamos National Laboratory. The work is steady, it lasts for years, and there are not enough local workers for it.
The trades needed most here: electricians, carpenters, ironworkers. For electricians, the data centers alone need 0.8x as many new workers as New Mexico usually adds in a year.
What's inside
The New Mexico playbook
- Which trade to pick in New Mexico — ranked by how short the builders are.
- The site map — every New Mexico data center, who runs it, and where it stands.
- How to get hired — the New Mexico unions and contractors, and how a new apprentice gets in.
- New Mexico pay and how to get licensed — starting pay, the data-center bump, and the steps to journeyman.
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