They want to build that up in people's minds because not all job losses are due to AI but rather the loss of jobs for the data centers needed to run AI, there isn't capacity enough on the US grid. If they told people that, there'd be a huge fight over putting in data centers. Here people are already engaged in those fights, but not in the sense of job losses, but in the sense of increased electric rates and strain on water supplies. Some mention the noise that comes along with them. People tend to think of AI as taking office, or white collar jobs, with some job losses in innovation of manufacturing technology, but we are miles apart from AI taking up a significant amount of blue collar jobs to create massive layoffs in the near future. If that were true, these processing facilities who have upgraded and consolidated their operations due to machine driven technologies, wouldn't be offering laid off employees of their old manufacturing the ability to transfer to another location. The expansion of, and consolidation of, facilities, doesn't necessitate to huge job losses except in that which occurs to close other plants. That's to take them off the grid, AI is replacing them, but in another manner, for a whole different reason.
Here there was a good example of that, the local news ran an article of where most job losses have occurred over the last few years in our state. I didn't read the article per se, I really didn't need to because the headline and subheadline said it all, most jobs were lost in the far southern region, and that's the region that has seen more data centers springing up.
When it comes to these data centers, this is what people need to realize, that yes, job losses in other states sharing the same grid or water supply, need to be filtered into the equation of how many jobs are lost due to a need of increased capacity on the grid or water supply. Same as within the state, you'll see where a hundred people showed up to speak out against a data center in their locality, most out of fear of increase electric bills....ding, ding, they don't have their own sole supply of electricity, their rates go up, so does everyone on that grid.
Here's another tall tale sign of what's going on, recently, with a lot of these big manufacturer closings, it's not just about the loss of jobs, the support those jobs provide for community businesses and the loss of that support, but the mention of the loss of revenue to that locality governance due to the loss of that facility no longer being there to buy their water. When have you ever seen that? Anybody? That's because it's been calculated in the millions of gallons not use anymore but not yet acknowledged how it will eventually be made up. I have never seen in my lifetime a story about a plant closure including how much a city or township will lose in water revenue, restaurants, retail, etc, yes, but never water.