# @blackrock on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=fzMlL-ckgUE
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-27T05:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BlackRock (@BlackRock) — https://gondola.cc/BlackRock

## Caption

Skilled trades are becoming one of the most important — and overlooked — drivers of the global infrastructure boom. As trillions of dollars flow into energy systems, transportation networks, telecoms, and AI data centers, the constraint is no longer just capital — it’s labor. The scale of the infrastructure buildout is historic but delivering it depends on the availability of trained workers.

In this episode of The Bid, host Oscar Pulido is joined by Claire Chamberlain, Global Head of Social Impact and President of the BlackRock Foundation, and Sandra Lawson, Managing Director in Global Corporate Affairs, to explore why skilled trades are central to the next phase of infrastructure investing. With an estimated $85 trillion in global infrastructure investment needed over the next 15 years, demand for electricians, HVAC technicians, grid specialists and plumbers is accelerating.

Claire and Sandra explain how apprenticeship-based career pathways offer paid training, competitive wages and benefits, and the prospect of long-term financial stability — while also highlighting the growing supply-demand imbalance in the labor market. The conversation explores how employers, unions, policymakers, schools, and philanthropy can work together to expand training capacity and modernize workforce development. As mega forces like AI and infrastructure reshape capital markets, human capital will be just as critical as financial capital in determining long-term economic success.

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Episode Chapters: 
00:00 Introduction & Meet the Guests
02:20 What the $85 trillion infrastructure opportunity means for labor markets
04:27 Why AI and Infrastructure Are Increasing Demand For Skilled Trades 
04:55 Why These Are Good Careers
06:39 How apprenticeship programs create earn-and-learn career pathways
07:41 Why skilled trades are becoming a constraint in infrastructure build-outs
09:15 Philanthropy as Early Capital
11:24 What success looks like for workforce development in an infrastructure-driven economy
13:52 Rethinking College Pathways
16:38 How collaboration among employers, unions schools, and philanthropy can expand training capacity and put more people on a path into the middle class
18:34 Wrap Up and Next Episode

#skilledtrades #infrastructure #aiinfrastructure #energytransition 

Sources: “On the record: Infrastructure and the opportunity in skilled trades”, BlackRock 2026

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energytransition, aiinfrastructure, infrastructure, skilledtrades

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