Texas AI-Exposed Job Postings Fell 8% as Graduate Unemployment Hit Unusually High Levels
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Updated · Futurism · Sep 4
Texas AI-Exposed Job Postings Fell 8% as Graduate Unemployment Hit Unusually High Levels
3 articles · Updated · Futurism · Sep 4
Summary
Dallas Fed research found Texas college graduates faced unusually high unemployment in AI-exposed fields, with the strain emerging during rapid generative AI adoption.
By the first quarter of 2025, Texas job postings in AI-exposed occupations had dropped 8% versus less-exposed roles after ChatGPT’s release, pointing to weaker labor demand for new graduates.
The findings undercut hopes that Texas’s AI boom would broadly lift local employment even as the state leads the U.S. in data centers under construction.
Grid-connection requests from data centers and other large power users jumped from about 48 gigawatts in 2023 to more than 474 gigawatts, yet Governor Greg Abbott froze new data center connections last month amid backlash.
The Texas results add to wider evidence that AI is eroding entry-level knowledge work, while Gallup found 72% of respondents in late 2025 said it was a bad time to find a good job.