Meta launched a nationwide program set to fast-track American workers into skilled trade jobs in AI infrastructure Monday.

America’s Workforce Academy (AWA) is a $115 million program that provides free training aimed at expediting Americans into skilled trade jobs that will build Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Meta announced in a press release.

The program will train participants to become skilled trade workers like welders, electricians, plumbers or fiber technicians, among other jobs, Meta told the Daily Caller.

AWA guarantees jobs for graduates and provides them with the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) credential and an America’s Workforce Certificate, a Meta spokesperson told the Daily Caller. These credentials give workers credibility with employers across industry sectors.

Meta described AWA as the “largest private-sector commitment to the skilled trades with a job guarantee in American history” in an announcement obtained by the Caller.

The company called this program “a major private-sector bet on American workers.”

“This is a major private-sector bet on American workers — not a government program, not a handout, but a company investing directly in the trades because there’s a massive demand for these skills and no shortage of Americans who want to do the work,” Meta stated.

Meta launched this initiative after its first project of this kind — the Level Up fiber installation training program — gained immediate popularity when it was announced in April. LevelUp received 35,000 applications within seven days of its announcement.

Meta partnered with CBRE, a major commercial real estate and investment firm, to start LevelUp. This free four-week program trains participants to become skilled fiber technicians, equipping them to work on data centers and other construction projects. Training includes hands-on labs and discussions in the classroom.

CBRE is the main program manager for these initiatives, a Meta spokesperson told the Caller.

Meta will pilot the AWA in Louisiana, Ohio, Texas and Indiana, according to the announcement.

Meta will also partner with the National Urban League, the Associated Builders and Contractors and organizations in communities throughout the United States, including the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, STRIVE, Boone-County Economic Development Corporation (Indiana), Richland Parish Chamber of Commerce (Louisiana), Workforce Solutions Borderplex (Texas) and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.

Participants will go through four to five weeks of curriculum at training centers, learning basic safety skills, construction math and drawing, material handling and rigging skills, a Meta spokesperson stated.

The training will introduce participants to the electrical, mechanical, plumbing and fiber connectivity systems found in data centers.

AWA training will equip trainees with skills applicable across the construction, energy and infrastructure sectors. Meta described this period as “a bootcamp designed to make candidates job site ready.”

“Trainees will be exposed to all career paths in the bootcamp and will pick the area where they want to specialize,” Meta told the Daily Caller. “Then they’ll go deeper with the on-the-job training.”

Dina Powell McCormick, Meta President and Vice-Chairman, described how Meta is capitalizing on the “historic opportunities” presented by the AI revolution.

“The AI revolution is bringing change but also historic opportunities,” McCormick said in a statement obtained by the Caller. “Skilled workers electrified rural America one pole at a time. They manned the factories that built the arsenal that won World War II. Now a new generation will pour the foundations and lay the fiber that secures American strength in this new age.” (RELATED: Truckers Replaced By Driverless Delivery As Automation Revolution Begins)

Mike Rowe, CEO of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, emphasized that AWA completely rethinks the training of new workers.

“Closing America’s skills gap requires us to not only make a more persuasive case for the skilled trades in general, it requires us to completely rethink the way we train the next generation of skilled workers,” Rowe said. “America’s Workforce Academy does both. Workers are actually paid to learn. There is zero cost to them, no college debt and a fast certification, with a guaranteed job on the other end.”

“This is an important step in the right direction, and one that I hope other companies will be inspired to take,” Rowe added.

Meta was operating or building 27 data centers in the U.S. in April, according to their LevelUp announcement. The company said these initiatives have supported more than 30,000 temporary skilled trade jobs during data center construction and more than 5,000 jobs in the long-term.