I’ve been a truck driver since I was 18 years old. I took a load across state lines on the very first day I was legally able to do so – my 21st birthday – and I’ve held a commercial driver's license (CDL) now for over 30 years.

Blue-collar guys like me have heard a lot from media elites about how our jobs will one day be irrelevant. We’ve been told that technology will replace us, and that we’ll need to find new skill sets to make a living.

But now the world’s tech leaders – the ones who are driving the AI revolution – insist that people like me are actually the foundation of the technology shaping the future. Microsoft President Brad Smith believes that a new generation of skilled tradesmen is needed to enable coders and data scientists, and in January, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang predicted that people working to build technology facilities will soon be earning six-figure salaries.

The numbers prove them right. This year, Big Tech is going to spend an estimated $650 billion to catch up with infrastructure needs, like expanded data center capacity, to support artificial........

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