Podbit · The Tim Dillon Show
Meta is offering free 5-week trade training and guaranteed jobs — to build AI data centers. Once the centers are built, the jobs are gone. Workers are being paid to construct the infrastructure that will automate away their livelihoods.
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Dillon reads the Wall Street Journal op-ed announcing America's Workforce Academy: free 5-week training in electrical work, plumbing, welding, fiber optics, and HVAC, all costs covered, with guaranteed jobs on Meta's data center construction projects. It sounds like a generous offer until Dillon identifies the catch: once the data centers are built, the jobs end. Workers are not being trained for a future economy — they're being conscripted to build the infrastructure of their own obsolescence. He notes this could have been done for roads, bridges, or public spaces, but wasn't — it's happening only because Meta needs it for AI.
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Meta, Mike Rowe, and partners launched America's Workforce Academy — a $115 million initiative to train skilled tradespeople to build AI data centers.
America's Workforce Academy offers a free 5-week fast-track program covering electrical work, plumbing, welding, fiber optics, and HVAC, with guaranteed jobs on Meta construction projects.
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