Michael Dekker

Tulsa World Business Reporter

Daniel Shular

Tulsa World Photojournalist

With planned AI data centers in the Tulsa area requiring the amount of power entire cities would use, the need for additional electrical workers and infrastructure has never been greater.

“They’ve been telling us for the last 10 or 11 years that this was coming, that we’re going to run out of electricians, … and now it’s here — it’s here,” said Ted Jenkins, training director at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers , a Tulsa-based union that offers a five-year apprenticeship with pay.

It is home for the Tulsa Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee program in north Tulsa.

Jenkins was among several people who spoke during Google’s announcement in Pryor in August t

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