Twenty Santa Teresa residents just graduated straight into full-time data-center jobs

In Santa Teresa, New Mexico, next door to the new Project Jupiter data-center campus, 20 residents have completed an accelerated construction-trades programme run by CODA — classroom work joined to hands-on training — and every graduate is starting regular full-time work. For a border community that has watched big projects arrive with outside workforces, the design is the story: train local people first, in the skills the project actually needs, and let the jobs stay in the neighbourhood that hosts them.

SDG 8 · Decent work and economic growth — Mechanism: institutional program