Chamath Palihapitiya
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But they got to leave their family for a three month tour or something.
Has that workforce now been completely depleted and we need to train another generation, a younger generation to be generation two belt and really embrace the trades?
And you go to a trade school, you go to a college, people are getting degrees in philosophy and English literature.
They're going 50K a year in debt, 200K a year in debt.
What's the starting salary for a trades person working on a data center, doing electrical or construction or HVAC?
I'm hearing 150 to like 300K.
Yeah.
I mean, it's incredible when you think about it.
There's concern.
about, hey, AI taking jobs, and then on this other side of the ledger, can't find enough talent to service it.
Talk to me about energy sources and how you think about that.
President Trump, Chris Wright, the administration, they kind of started with, hey, clean, beautiful coal.
Year two, they're like, all sources matter, nuclear.
Obviously, nat gas is plentiful in that area.
We obviously got a lot of oil.
People don't know this about Texas.
In the United States, the number one source of solar installations, yeah?
Talk to us about energy.
Wait, how is that possible?
Great arbitrage.