EXCLUSIVE — Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, announced Wednesday morning that it is entering into a first‑of‑its‑kind national partnership with North America’s Building Trades Unions, which represents 3 million construction workers. Now, the future of Meta’s AI data centers is tied to the men and women who build them.

This very unique moment is the culmination of the relationship between NABTU president Sean McGarvey and Meta president Dina Powell McCormick, the wife of Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). McGarvey has spent much of his storied career earning long‑term labor commitments for his members. Powell McCormick framed the deal not as a one‑off construction contract, but as a long‑term commitment to the skilled trades.

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McGarvey, who has navigated NABTU into areas such as large energy projects, LNG terminals, and new renewable infrastructure — areas that unions were often not part of — said that the memorandum of understanding with Meta is the next iteration of his long-term strategy.

“NABTU is proud to partner with Meta,” McGarvey said in the agreement. “The Future Is For Everyone Fund is exactly the kind of investment communities across America need and will value.”

The “Future Is For Everyone Fund” that McGarvey refers to is a newly announced billion‑dollar Meta initiative targeting the communities where the company owns and operates data centers. It is an initiative that binds one of........

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