Kirk Offel

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6,820 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Data Center Revolution · Ep 145: Jesse Sargent’s Journey: From Army Infantry to Leading Data Center Workforce · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

And I'm like, now we're building. matched

That used to be true. matched

And we're leaving thousands of people behind to operate those things, let alone another thousand for the break fix to maintain it and service it. matched

That's right. matched

And for every person that we leave behind in a city to operate a data center, they create six more jobs in the world. matched

So data centers evolved from, look, people complain about the noise, the pollution, the energy impact on environment, all the same things when we did the U.S. matched

railway system, when we electrified the U.S. matched

grid, and when we followed the automobile revolution with the interstate highway systems. matched

And those interstate highway systems, they're never ending. matched

Roads become inadequate because the volume of cars increases, the size of the cars increase, and we're never going to stop. matched

There's not a market in the U.S. matched

where there isn't highway work being done. matched

this infrastructure is going to fall in the same category transformational and it's going to it's going to create millions of jobs over the course of time hundreds of thousands of jobs where there are parents that are listening right now whose kids will be in this industry and those jobs that they'll have haven't even been invented yet for sure all right so i want people that are listening i mean pass this on to the gens years pass this on to your kids and let them know if if you know anybody in the military matched

forward this to them and let them know that they can reach out to us because like you, I was an E nothing, right? matched

I was, I, um, your question to me was how did I get into the game? matched

And, and I went into the military and I found myself in a technical, uh, role that allowed me to learn how to use my hands. matched

Okay. matched

So like I was enlisted, I was a person that was required or expected to know how to read complicated shit and go take action and execute across it. matched

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And I operated in what I consider is the most intense mission critical environment ever. matched

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