Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts
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As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America’s data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive facilities.
Key facts
- He doesn’t trust corporations operating within this context and believes executives like Elon Musk and Alex Karp are all “suspicious at best
- Threads about how AI will affect the economy now pepper r/electricians, a subreddit with around half a million monthly visitors
- As a “single guy attempting to date,” he tells WIRED, “the conversation shifts or gets shut down altogether” when he reveals his line of work
- If AI were destined for benevolent use, Ryan believes, things would be different
Summary
In some cases, the scale of the projects and the demanding construction timelines are fueling talent wars for the industry’s best and brightest. But amid growing national opposition to data centers, debates over the ethics of the massive buildout have started to pop up in some online pockets of the community. Threads about how AI will affect the economy now pepper r/electricians, a subreddit with around half a million monthly visitors. Some users wonder whether the work will eventually prompt widespread job losses. One electrician based in the Midwest says he no longer tells people what he does for a living.