$115M data center workforce initiative
Meta, Mike Rowe, and partners launched America's Workforce Academy — a $115 million initiative to train skilled tradespeople to build AI data centers.
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500 - Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny
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Jun 20, 2026
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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.
Vance: AI is 'communist technology'
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 Paying Workers to Build Their Own Replacement
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.
Free 5-week trade training program
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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