Brian Barrett

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie; Data Center Workers Are Fighting Back · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, it's been interesting to see this evolution.

I think we've talked a lot about communities pushing back and that remains an important story, but we've had a couple of stories on Wired and there've been stories elsewhere about people who are directly involved.

Carolyn Haskins, Wired staff writer, had a great look at how electricians, right?

We've heard electricians are crucial to building data centers.

Some of them are now saying, wait a minute, does this make you a sellout?

Does working on a data center mean that you are kind of

betraying broader principles, not just electrician principles, just human principles.

It's like Cybertrucks.

It's like owning a Cybertruck.

Working on a data center is the new owning a Cybertruck.

But I think here's the thing.

I agree.

This is what's, like, the building of data centers and investment in AI is the U.S.

economy at this point.

And when that goes away, it's going to be really, really painful.

I think a lot of the pushback, though, which is that there's not really much direct economic benefit for you locally if a data center comes.

Usually when you have, like, oh, they're bringing a railroad into town, at least you get added commerce from the railroad, right?

This is what happened.

I'm old enough now.

Thank you.

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