“"The Economist tracked five industries at the heart of the data-centre build-out, from electrical contracting to equipment manufacturing. Since 2023 employment in them has risen by roughly 320,000 more than broader construction and manufacturing trends would suggest. The Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) expects utilities to be the fastest-growing big sector between now and 2035…

AI is also creating a new class of white-collar jobs…

Preliminary research by Gad Levanon, chief economist at the Burning Glass Institute, uses the research outfit’s career history database (which mostly relies on LinkedIn career histories) to identify jobs that would not exist without AI, whether at AI-native firms or because they are AI-specific roles at other companies. He reckons roughly 1% of professional jobs are now 'AI jobs'—on the order of 1m positions in America. In computer occupations and life sciences—including researchers using AI to discover new drugs—the share is 4-5%. LinkedIn’s own analysis points to roughly 640,000 new AI-specific jobs between 2023 and 2025…

A third source of jobs comes from productivity gains. AI allows lawyers to draft contracts faster and analysts to comb through financial filings in minutes. If higher productivity lowers the cost of professional services, it is possible that demand for them can rise enough to create more work overall.

Some of the occupations once believed to be most vulnerable to AI appear to be benefiting from this effect. Between 2023 and 2025 employment among paralegals rose by about 11% and among market-research analysts by 6%, compared with a national average of around 2%.””

From The Economist.