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Sep 24, 2026
Powering the AI Revolution: Chris Madello & Jim Snell on Data Centers, Skilled Labor & America’s Future
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13:21Jim SnellGUEST
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.
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13:40Jim SnellGUEST
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.
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13:50Jim SnellGUEST
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.
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14:24Jim SnellGUEST
Hopefully by the middle of next summer, we'll be finished a close to $20 million renovation of my training center.
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14:33Jim SnellGUEST
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.
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Powering the AI Revolution: Chris Madello & Jim Snell on Data Centers, Skilled Labor & America’s Future
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Joe DoughertyHOST
Talk about what your role has been in regards to the data center situation in PA.
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4:17Jim SnellGUEST
Yeah, look, Chris has a much larger role, right? He's all things data centers throughout the country for the UA.
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4:30Jim SnellGUEST
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...
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4:44Jim SnellGUEST
development or possible development is really centered in Chester County, Montgomery County, uh, and the Lehigh Valley.
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