# America’s Workforce Academy: No Cost. No Prior Experience Necessary. A Career on the Other Side.

The four-week program covers participants’ travel and lodging, with jobs at Meta partners waiting after graduation.

- Graduates are heading to Meta construction sites to help build data center infrastructure.
- AWA offers fiber technician and generalist construction training programs.
- New classes are now graduating every week.
- Graduate Laniya learned to build servers and lay fiber cords and will work as a fiber technician at a Meta data center.
- Graduate Ethan learned to build data center infrastructure and plans to develop networking and security skills.

## Why it matters

People seeking skilled-trade careers now have a no-cost route from training into jobs building and maintaining Meta’s data center infrastructure.

## Sources

- [Meta AI: America’s Workforce Academy: No Cost. No Prior Experience Necessary. A Career on the Other Side.](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/americas-workforce-academy-meta-skilled-trade-training-program)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-08-18. https://dstilled.ai/story/bd0fdcaf-ae67-455f-a997-740dce65bb4c