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Jim Snell

Sep 24, 2026

13:17
Jimmy, I'll go to you first on that.
13:21
Yeah, well, it is certainly nice to be recognized by these developers, right? Listen, if I was a developer, I'd want the best in the business to build these facilities, okay? So, you know, it's not, at least around here, it's not so much a hard sell.
13:40
You know, you don't have to twist too many arms of these developers to use UA locals or, you know, Philadelphia or Lehigh Valley building trades.
13:50
uh uh unions um you know look uh it it's it's our training that puts us you know right right at the very top of the food chain um and we value that you know our members provide millions of dollars a year they're our own money right we don't rely on government handouts or anything it's our own members who pour money into our training facilities to keep up with the technologies.
14:18
And look, right now I'm in the process, we're halfway through it.
14:24
Hopefully by the middle of next summer, we'll be finished a close to $20 million renovation of my training center.
14:33
And why did Why did I decide to do that? It's to prepare for this wave, like Chris just mentioned, this data center boom.

23 MINS LATER

37:48
from Jimmy, in
4:03
Talk about what your role has been in regards to the data center situation in PA.
4:15
Sure thing, Jay, Doc.
4:17
Yeah, look, Chris has a much larger role, right? He's all things data centers throughout the country for the UA.
4:28
My role, as you mentioned, right, I'm Philly.
4:30
But, you know, you got to remember, I have 10 counties, right? Philadelphia and nine other counties, right? So in my territory, the data center...
4:44
development or possible development is really centered in Chester County, Montgomery County, uh, and the Lehigh Valley.
4:54
Okay.

8 MINS LATER

13:17
Jimmy, I'll go to you first on that.

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