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“We're building this infrastructure out and, call it across all of the United States, somewhere between 10, 20 gigawatts a year — let's just estimate, that creates just probably about a million jobs in building out these data centers... This is the first time in probably 50 years we're re-industrializing the United States, creating a whole bunch of blue collar jobs.”
Said Sep 29, 2026America.gov launch event panel with Elon Musk, Washington, DC, September 29, 2026 (reported by Yahoo Finance)
Huang gave no explicit deadline; the claim is tied to the ongoing US AI data center buildout running at roughly 10-20 GW per year and the construction employment it generates.