Sickly hilarious to hear the pro-AI gang trying to talk up jobs that will be created by data centers. Yeah, there will be construction jobs until construction finishes. And then the whole gigantic hyper-scale data center monstrosity will be operated by a dozen people or so. JOBS ARE THE BIG AI LIE. One of them, anyway.
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Oh no, but our rural community was promised 7 jobs per MW installed 😂
Ireland has become a really popular location for the hyperscalers and AI data centers.
Depending on whether you include construction or not there are between 3500 and 20000 people employed in the 82 data centers we have here at last count.
Out of a working population of about 4million that’s 0.5% at best.
Datacenters also now consume 23% of our electricity, impacting the price the rest of us pay.
Whatever they might do, providing employment is not one of those things.
