Technology

CEOs quoted: 3

Labor leaders quoted: 0

Who keeps fucking quoting this idiot and posting it?

Not to agree with him but.. They already are and have been for a while?

It annoys me to no end every single dumbass statement these idiot CEOs make is treated like news

CEO says a thing journalism!

yeah no. one of the reasons plumbers or electricians generally do well is because their field isn't saturated with plumbers and electricians. hundreds of thousands of each means salaries of said jobs will go down. thus nothing changes. Add to the fact both jobs A. require trade schooling and B. apprenticeships. Also they're pretty much all unionized which you also have to get into. it would never fly, it could never fly unless you do away with trade schools, apprenticeships, and unions which leaves you with unqualified under paid plumbers and electricians.

This fucking leather jacket wearing mouth breather needs a strong reality check. preferably one that adds another hole to his head.

By his logic we wouldn't need CEOs either, so silver lining?

white collar CEO attempts to sway public opinion by appealing to blue collar workers sensibilities

Does this idiot know what trades make? He's trying to denigrate blue collar, but sparkies and plumbers make miiiint

Jensen can go fuck himself. Gamers built nvidia and he fucks them over at the first opportunity.

When I was 16-22ish, I knew everything. I was sure of it. I had it all figured out. Everyone was an idiot except me. I tried giving everyone advice because I had the best advice.

Then reality kicked me in the ass and brought me down a couple pegs and I realized that I was so incredibly wrong. I'm just a guy with limited knowledge and the world and universe is so vast and different that no one can "know it all" or even come remotely close.

I'm so thankful for that. Otherwise I'd be a fucking moron with a dumb leather jacket waxing poetic about skilled trades as I pretend that next word guessing chatbots are the pinnacle of humanity's creation.

Oh my god, Jensen Huang is losing it completely now, the billions have gone to his head, so he thinks he's an oracle.
He might as well say we all need to become janitors, that follow each robot around to wipe it's ass clear of oil.

I have a relative that's an electrician working on a DC. He's been one it for a year and has about two years left to completion. All of the electricians that are willing and able are working weekends on overtime pay to get this done, it's all voluntary shifts.

He was talking numbers the other day, and their company gets to keep the difference is cost on the project if they come in under budget, and they're on track to make over 1 million on top of what they quoted. None of that is being dispersed amongst the workers, at least for now. He said they recently did their weekly dialogue where everyone gets together in a room to talk about the project, and said it was abnormally quiet. People are upset and burning out. He said they could pay everyone an extra $20k a year out of that excess, and that may turn the motivation around, but so far nothing.

My point on that is, yea, they do need as many electricians as they can get, but thanks to capitalism, it ain't going to happen and they're going to start losing workers. That aligns with Jensen here, because like everyone other douchebag with power, he wouldn't be saying this if the futures didn't looked bleak on the work force. I also don't know if $20k a year extra will be enough to offset 60 hour weeks specifically working on DCs.

Let me guess: the milllions of electricians are tasked with building the AI data centres, while the plumbers build the plumbing needed to flush all those tons of generated slop down the drain?

If anyone supports billionaires after this … fuck you.

Wait he's not wearing a wankjacket, that's a Jensenbot!

Tax billionaire and the one trillionaire to pay for trade schools to be free.

What went wrong before that we didn't need them? Why now, to build datacenters?

Assuming AI is really going to take these jobs full stop, something else needs to happen outside of people reschooling themselves for blue collar work.

I understand there might be a temporary uptick in required blue collar work as we perpare infrastructure to handle this bullshit but we definitely don't need everybody that's currently doing any kind of office work to be an pixie or pipe wrangler.

There are no AI safe jobs in this context. There are only jobs AI can't do yet. But they aren't safe. The remaining people will flood whatever job market is left if something doesn't change and then people absolutely won't be making a 100k with no degree. Besides, if AI is really going to take most of the white collar jobs it's only a matter of time before those robots get good enough to take blue collar jobs too.

Also by telling everybody what to do (become a plumber or electrician in this case) you're creating the same problem in the long term we have now with all the people that were told becoming a developer was the future and now find themselves with a crippling debt, meager income, and bleak prospects in the job market.

Fuck off, Jensen.

PREDICTION: : There is going to be a harder push for the public to buy smart/AI glasses. Companies will train robots to do trade jobs by using data from smart glasses.

No vacation/sick time to pay for. No benefits to pay for. Less work for HR. No unions. No liability. Lots of dreams to sell the public that never live up to the promises. <-- this is why people hate AI, along with the data centers.

That's what they said about software developers and coders.

As long as they understand those electricians and plumbers should be charging them 5-10x what they are charging now. If their AI can't do it, it's gone from blue collar to bespoke work.

This guys in for a rude awakening soon.

“The skilled craft segment of every economy is going to see a boom. You’ve going to have to be doubling and doubling and doubling every single year.”

Doubling every year? For how many years, Jensen? Enough for all these people to finish trade school and make a decades-long career? And how are the AI companies who already can't see any way to make a profit going to fund this exponential growth in their costs?

We need more leather workers to make cool jackets.

I work on the uninterruptible power supplies in many of these monstrosities. I heard from someone who works in one of them while I was on a job saying that they literally pay themselves off in 7 months. That's how much money is flying around in this space, and all that money is just more explosive power for the bomb its going to be at the heart of our economy.

Our team is being run ragged out here in the PNW because of the absolute mass of Data Centers being built on cheap land in eastern WA.

Shut up you mega corp pos ceo.

You are not in charge. Go back to making graphics cards and leave politics to politicians.