{"id":1008207,"date":"2026-05-16T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008207"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:00:04","slug":"as-ai-wipes-off-lakhs-of-jobs-across-industries-blackstone-coo-jon-gray-predicts-thousands-of-new-jobs-being-created-says-we-are-hiring-30000-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/as-ai-wipes-off-lakhs-of-jobs-across-industries-blackstone-coo-jon-gray-predicts-thousands-of-new-jobs-being-created-says-we-are-hiring-30000-in\/","title":{"rendered":"As AI wipes off lakhs of jobs across industries, Blackstone COO Jon Gray predicts thousands of new jobs being created; says: We are hiring 30,000 in &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As generative AI wipes out lakhs of white-collar jobs across industries, Blackstone\u2019s president and chief operating officer Jon Gray says that technology is simultaneously fuelling a surge in blue-collar employment. According to a report by Fortune, speaking at the Milken Institute, Gary produced a \u201chuge boom in skilled trades\u201d over the next five years, driven by massive investments in AI infrastructure. Gray pointed to QTS, a Blackstone portfolio company which operates or is developing more than 75 data centers across the world. A year ago, about 10,000 workers were on QTS job sites; by year\u2019s end, that number is expected to quadruple to 40,000. \u201cBetween the energy, the physical infrastructure, the data centers, the reindustrialization\u2014something very powerful is happening,\u201d Gray said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As generative AI wipes out lakhs of white-collar jobs across industries, Blackstone\u2019s president and chief operating officer Jon Gray says that technology is simultaneously fuelling a surge in blue-collar employment. According to a report by Fortune, speaking at the Milken Institute, Gary produced a \u201chuge boom in skilled trades\u201d over the next five years, driven by massive investments in AI infrastructure. Gray pointed to QTS, a Blackstone portfolio company which operates or is developing more than 75 data centers across the world. A year ago, about 10,000 workers were on QTS job sites; by year\u2019s end, that number is expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008208,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008207\/revisions\/1008208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}