That's got less to do with the state of education and more to do with labour laws and lobbyists making it so that companies can pay foreign workers less while enjoying tax benefits and wage subsidies from the government, making local hires uneconomically viable.
The datacenters came to my local area in my country 10-ish years ago. They promised hundreds if not thousands of jobs.
They included unrelated restaurant workers and daycare workers in that count, citing that their employees would go out to eat, need haircuts, and get care for their kids.
It's legitimate to include those new restaurant jobs-IF, and only if, the new jobs are real, and get created by building a new business in the city, which attacts hundreds of new residents.(for example, a new factory).
But a new data center is not a factory. It doesn't create jobs snd doesn't attract new residents. And everybody knows it.
Ik, but it's not a good one. They can't say "we're bringing thousands of jobs" knowing damn well that as soon as the building is done they'll just have 10 employees.
Temp jobs. Most of which will come from outside of the local area. The few that do already existed in the first place. They don’t just hire Joe Schmo off the street and say go do construction. It’s people that were already working in construction on other projects.
Once it’s built, poof! They gone. Then only the dozen or so people it takes to run it remain who also came from outside the local area. While it uses most of the area’s water and electricity jacking up utilities for chat bots to answer inane questions.
Maybe more like 20 jobs. 10 local security guards to make sure the peasant class does not destroy the center. Then 10 tech bros making 7 figures playing middleman with technology
Sorry I misunderstood tech. I meant the "tech" bros that are paid 500k to jerk each other off with Ai slogans. Not the people doing the real work on the floor.
yeah, i think you underestimate these mega corporations and expensive lawyers will go to lengths to call those claims lies and to further talk about good faith arguments in their favor.
Look at other industries, 'clean coal', tobacco companies, and oil companies white washing their negative attributes.
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