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500 - Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny
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Meta's America's Workforce Academy: Training Workers to Build Their Replacements
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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.
JD Vance cited a friend's claim that AI is fundamentally a 'communist technology' because it enables governments and corporations to surveil people profoundly.
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.
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.
