What went wrong before that we didn't need them? Why now, to build datacenters?
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
209 points (86.4% liked)
Technology
86580 readers
3730 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
As long as they understand those electricians and plumbers should be charging them 5-10x what they are charging now. If their AI can't do it, it's gone from blue collar to bespoke work.
There are going to be other jobs when the AI take over, you can easily learn to be a plumber while us CEOs pay you peanuts
Yeah no, LLM AI companies have ridden the AI will eliminate white collar jobs trope to push sky high valuations.
You don’t get to change the narrative this deep in the bubble.
While LLM AI is useful, it won’t replace all white collar jobs. The cost of using AI to replace existing jobs is starting to hit the P&Ls of most major users and it’s too expensive even with the subsidized services these LLM AI companies are offering.
The kicker is if anyone does ever create general AI intelligence it’s going to be controversial. A general AI will basically be a conscious thinking entity. To force it to perform functions is basically enslaving a conscious thinking entity. I’m sure big business will have no problem with legalized slavery. But is that something people will tolerate once it becomes known? I’m sure there will be resistance to it.
indirectly they are eliminating, suppressing jobs via job sites, the employers are using Ai to screen out even more applicants than before, more than like AI will survive as a resume/cv screening tool in the end , albeit much smaller than it is now eventually, because they would use expensive software to do it, now with ai can just eliminate large batches of resume faster.
Billionaire trick
What they really mean is hundreds of thousands of cheap workers.
I was a plumber for a bit. Nah. Suck my fuckin dick, Jensen. lol. Not doing it. That shit is just begging for bad knees and fucked up fingers and toes.
It's never too late to go to trade school. We have way too many CEOs anyway, so it'd be a good moment for him to think about his future career.
Let me translate:
Even though the current hardware and memory shortage is heavily limiting AI Data center building. There's also a shortage of electricians and plumbers to plug everything in.
This means they need now and I mean right now a lot of those people. Once the centers are built you need a few to maintain those systems but not as nearly as much.
What he wants is workers now that are jobless tomorrow.
Essentially expanding the gig economy to the trades.
What, can't the AI robots do it? I'm ready for my Jetsons lifestyle where I do 2 hours worth of work a month and have a robot maid.
What's all this plumbing that suddenly need to doing?
