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jedberg01/21/20251 replyview on HN

If they're creating that many jobs, it means most of them are construction work.

Skilled labor for sure, but not necessarily college educated.


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raphman01/22/2025

How does this work out in the long term? Operating a data center does not require that many blue-collar workers.

I'm imagining a future where the US builds a Tower of Babel from thousands of data centers just to keep people employed and occupied. Maybe also add in some paperclip factories¹?

¹) https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

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