First Solar, Inc. (FSLR)
Solar module maker in the U.S. and Asia. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 19 of the 32 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
44%
Employees, annual report
7,900
Leading staffing pattern
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202735%
- End of 202844%
- End of 203049%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 49%
- Becomes checking a model's work 41%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A solar manufacturer whose filing states 7,900 associates in four countries and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce is read at semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 49% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
7,900 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the majority work in the United States, Malaysia, India and Vietnam, with no count by country; the data service's 96% United States is revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 7,900 associates (our term for full and part-time employees), the majority of which work in the United States, Malaysia, India, and Vietnam.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes solar module manufacturing in the United States, Malaysia, India and Vietnam, photovoltaic cells and modules (NAICS 334413), with no count by kind of work, so the whole workforce is read at semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 7,900 full- and part-time associates as of December 31, 2025 (8,100 a year earlier), the majority in the United States, Malaysia, India and Vietnam; associates in Vietnam and Sweden represented by unions, none elsewhere.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Amphenol Corporation (APH, 170,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Flex Ltd. (FLEX, 149,686 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- TE Connectivity plc (TEL, 93,000 employees)18% now, 44% by 2028
- Intel Corp. (INTC, 85,100 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Micron Technology, Inc. (MU, 53,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM, 52,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Coherent, Inc. (COHR, 51,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
19 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says electric load growth from AI-driven data center demand continues to increase and has expanded the number of potential buyers of its modules, and names AI among the innovations the administration champions.
- “Further, overall electric load growth, especially as a result of artificial intelligence ("AI")-driven data center demand, continues to increase.”
- “Presidential administration has committed to an economic mandate focused on growth, reducing inflation, reshoring manufacturing and jobs, and championing innovation, including AI.”
- “Additionally, the unprecedented expansion of data centers, AI workloads, electrification of industrial processes, and broader economic growth has increased demand for new generation capacity and has expanded the number of potential buyers of our modules, as utility-scale solar offers low-cost, rapidly deployable new generation.”
- “Recent developments in the threat landscape include the use of AI and machine learning, as well as an increased number of cyber extortion attacks, with higher financial ransom demand amounts and increasing sophistication and variety of ransomware techniques and methodology.”
- “Uncertainty in the development, deployment and use of AI in our products and services, as well as our business more broadly, could adversely affect our business and reputation.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 202419median 4
- Fiscal 202519median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 7,900 | 2026-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 8,100 | 2025-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,700 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 5,500 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,800 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,100 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 6,600 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 6,400 | 2019-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,100 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,400 | 2017-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 6,350 | 2016-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 6,060 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 4,850 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 5,600 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 7,000 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 6,100 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-26 | 4,700 | 2010-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-27 | 3,524 | 2009-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | 1,462 | 2008-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-30 | 723 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001274494-26-000021, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of First Solar, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 44% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce First Solar, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does First Solar, Inc. employ?
- 7,900 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up First Solar, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does First Solar, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 19 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 19 and 19 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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