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Amazon, LCCC plan jobs training as data centers boom

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NANTICOKE — Tim Figgins clipped through a fiber optic bundle containing 12 strands, each the width of a human hair. To attach the bundle to another cable, he has to keep the strands free of dirt and align each end before heat sealing and testing the splice. “The machine will tell me if I did something wrong,” Figgins said while demonstrating his job as a fiber optic splicer during a workshop that Amazon Web Services and Luzerne County Community College held on Jan. 14 about jobs that the boom in data centers will create and how to train for them. […]