When a man’s investing $100 billion in the future of AI, it’s worth listening to his thoughts on the future of the economy and jobs market.

Jensen Huang is the US tech entrepreneur who famously founded a trillion-dollar business in the booth of a diner where he used to wash dishes. Now the Nvidia founder is betting big on the expansion of AI and has been talking about the likely impact on the jobs market.

Spoiler: there’s good news and bad.

While he acknowledges the threat to the future of some entry-level jobs in particular, Huang predicts a jobs bonanza you might not have seen coming – among traditional trades.

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“If you’re an electrician, you’re a plumber, a carpenter – we’re going to need hundreds of thousands of them to build all of these factories,” Huang told Channel 4 News, in reference to the data centres needed world-wide to power AI.

“The skilled craft segment of........

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