Maxwell Clarke
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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In general, as AI and data center expansion becomes a very m a much bigger part of everyday life and discussion, you know, you have to start to sit back and think.
We a lot has been said about what AI is gonna do for our lives and the economy in general for the future.
But most of those exercises
like under understate the degree to which it's impacting our present.
That being said, Emily alluded to it earlier, that there are a lot of ripple effects.
So there are a lot of questions that we can ask ourselves about what the status of demand is in the across the economy.
None of which really in general seems to be very strong.
Right.
But what data centers and the first mover advantage that's essentially driving
the high tech or tech companies that are building them is the first mover advantage and the need to essentially procure
obtain equipment
as quickly as they can and almost essentially at whatever price.
It's affecting a lot of things.
It's affecting, it's starting to affect things like labor.
The need for specialized labor, pulling electricians away, similar to what we saw during fracking, the fracking boom, where you wind up having people moving to different parts of the country for better higher paying jobs.
But at the end of the day, those labor rates also wind up being seen across the economy.
Because they are essentially now the new going rate for that particular role.
In this case, the greater focus would be on specialized, skilled labor, like electricians and engineers, for example.
Materials in general, we're still dealing with a lot of transformative issues, right?
We're still dealing with the most recent fly in the ointment being the eruption of war in the Middle East.
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