Scott Adams

And I've been in these data centers.

I mean, it's really just like an empty office building kind of thing, like a big warehouse looking type of building.

But some of these are getting really big, like many football field size buildings.

And if you can just imagine a building that size

with computers stacked floor to ceiling every inch they can fit in there.

You know, it's using a ton of power, a ton of heating and cooling, really cooling.

And it just, it's a huge resource drain.

And yes, it does require some jobs for people to run the data center, but not that many jobs, frankly, because most of the time the computers don't break and they just run 24 hours a day.

And it doesn't really take a lot of

jobs.

I mean, there'd be some jobs to build them.

And I think a lot of electricians and plumbers especially are making bank right now, building out data centers.

But once they're built, they pretty much just run for years and they don't really require a lot of people.

The data centers I've been in were mostly empty.

They add cubicles and areas for people to work, but those days are long gone.

For the most part, you might have a few people for security and maybe a few people to just take out a component when it breaks and swap in another component to replace it.

But other than that, it really doesn't require a lot of people.

So they're trying to convince you it's gonna create a bunch of jobs and it will create some jobs, but probably not very many and probably not even enough to account for all the energy usage that they're gonna have.

So if your electricity bill

goes up to double or triple, which I think is happening in some places, it's not going to make your life better to say, oh, you know, a couple of people got a job.