NEWS: A geothermal training center is coming to the Northeast.

Drillers needed: The DOE wants over 17K US geothermal networks by 2050. But there aren’t enough qualified workers to drill all those boreholes. Now, the nonprofit Home Energy Efficiency Team and the Geothermal Drillers Association want to set up a countrywide network of training centers. The first will arrive in Massachusetts later this year.

Meanwhile, Google is funneling $50M to train 300K US workers in fields including electrical work, welding, and pipefitting (which is convenient timing for the data center and grid buildout).