Pennsylvania community colleges aim to feed the data center construction boom

On a January morning in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, Nazrawi Yenberberu, the chief engineer at Amazon Web Services, stood before a class of community college students. He was pointing at an electrical…

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Ann D. Bieber and John Yudichak, presidents of Lehigh Carbon Community College and Luzerne County Community College, are positioning their graduates to fill the labor gap in Pennsylvania’s new data center sector. They cite a $20 billion Amazon investment and a pipeline of over 240,000 statewide community college students, 90% of whom stay in the state to work.