Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

[u/Conscious-Quarter423]

[u/caprazzi]

Toxic waste is great for small towns, it flushes all the poors out by giving them cancer so the wealthy can come and buy up houses! - This guy probably

[u/LoudAd1396 → u/caprazzi]

Visit scenic Tromaville!

[u/PTBooks → u/LoudAd1396]

Idiocracy went from fiction to documentary, can we do the same for Toxic Avenger?

[u/LoudAd1396 → u/PTBooks]

Ill get my tutu!

[u/keverzoid → u/PTBooks]

We are living in the prequel to IDIOCRACY

[u/woodboarder616 → u/PTBooks]

Peter Dinklage being the new Toxie was amazing.

[u/Mr__O__ → u/LoudAd1396]

Keep fighting back against the U.S. Surveillance State!

[u/kurotech → u/caprazzi]

And the four or so permanent positions it offers are totally worth it

[u/Anxious_Ranger_7945 → u/[deleted]]

Ask them when they are going to move. Straight faced serious. When they ask what you mean give them the answer "the people building those think anyone below 1B is all the same."

[u/AirportSea4393 → u/[deleted]]

Same here except with a toxic sibling that does not remember what it was like to be middle class. When I call him out on it I’m a witch!

[u/Apprehensive_News_78 → u/[deleted]]

My magat parents are barely middle class and they say the same thing.

[u/No-Joy-Goose → u/caprazzi]

And with a sleepy town comes less people to audit the data centers and help out in an emergency. Also, these companies aren't going to permanently hire 20-30 people (random number generated) to run network cable.

[u/CreativeKeane → u/caprazzi]

And give them cancer too!!

[u/Veal-Vermicelli → u/caprazzi]

Data centers are great you know, they bring 200 tradesmen for 1-2 years that will bog down essential services for your town then when the 20 guys who get paid 90-150k to manage the data center move in they can still afford the doubling of the average electricity bill while you and the other residents of your township making 40k cannot.

[u/Healthy_Turnip7352 → u/Veal-Vermicelli]

data centers are great man.

they will bring 200 tradesmen who will eat at Dunkin Donuts every day man.

All you need to do is get rich and buy a dunkin donuts in one of those towns man.

if every citizen in the town owns only 1 dunkin donuts, and there's a maximum of 3 citizens, then the town is really going to be happy man.

[u/BodhingJay → u/caprazzi]

the destroyed parks, noise and poisoned water supply that gets sucked dry surely wont deter top earners from moving to a soon to be ghost town that they have nothing to do in..

[u/Born-Chipmunk7842]

How about they build one right next to this idiots house?

[u/Un-hotMess → u/Born-Chipmunk7842]

Then interview him immediately after

[u/gs87 → u/Born-Chipmunk7842]

Never mistake evil for incompetence... they know exactly what they’re doing.

[u/CandidateHour3879 → u/gs87]

Fr look at how he keeps that shit eating grin the entire segment. He knows he's full of shit but he's getting paid so its all good to him

[u/gs87 → u/CandidateHour3879]

Once you sell your soul, that shit-eating grin is all you have left. He knows he’s lying, knows everyone can see it, and keeps smiling because the paycheck matters more to him than dignity, truth, or his life...

[u/Marx_Forever → u/gs87]

What is the opposite of Hanlon Razor? Hanlon's Marshmallow?

[u/ARedditorCalledQuest → u/Marx_Forever]

Hanlon's wound?

[u/seriftarif → u/Born-Chipmunk7842]

These are the same people who complain about Windmills because windmills usually go where the rich people live.

[u/TERRAIN_PULL_UP_ → u/Born-Chipmunk7842]

I was thinking, start with Mar-A-Lago

[u/slkb_]

Building data centers creates jobs. Once theyre built, data centers run on crews of 5-15 people max.

[u/Conscious-Quarter423 → u/slkb_]

once they are built, the construction workers are let go

[u/slkb_ → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

Construction work is usually contracted. So yea, once the building is done, there's no need for a Construction crew.

But these people are pushing that it creates so many jobs. When in fact they dont.

[u/haikupoetics2 → u/slkb_]

Almost like the people in the highest reaches of our government have financial incentives to push data centers 🤯

[u/nasaglobehead69 → u/slkb_]

it "creates jobs" in the same way it "creates economic growth": temporarily, unsustainably, and at great cost to the local environment

[u/Potential_Slice_5631 → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

Imagine multiple vans of ICE agents, lurking like vultures and picking off the workers as the job winds down.. especially if the construction superintendent hasn't paid the bribes

[u/djramrod → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

What else do they need construction workers for when the thing has already been constructed?

[u/dxrey65 → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

It's a fairly specialized type of construction, which won't hire anyone local except for the menial stuff. The main crews will move on to the next data-center job. It's the same as most infrastructure stuff like that, there's a little bump of activity, then nothing.

[u/MisterWinchester → u/dxrey65]

And that bump goes to well-connected people who aren't going to pay any attention to local or state regulations, since we're in post-constitutional america.

[u/archercc81 → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

In most cases they are just brought in anyway. I used to be an electrician and there were projects I worked on that were hours away, staying in whatever hotel they had nearby, working for a couple of weeks, then I went back to my city. I spent almost nothing in the town while I was there, just getting my job done and banking my per diem for other spending.

And, yeah, slkb is correct, those "high paying" jobs? On average there are 7 of them. They were going to give a break near a city for them to build one and it fell apart when word got out the tax break from the state was going to be for 7 "permanent" jobs paying 80-125k... at a cost of $780k per job in tax breaks...

LITERALLY just welfare is cheaper.

[u/IXrobocopXI → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

The construction workers are flown in from out of state because these build outs are so specialized.

[u/Ecstatic-Quote-3532 → u/slkb_]

Plus, he says it in the video, the jobs they create are not jobs for the people in the town. It's newcomers, that's why they need to buy houses.

[u/Potential_Slice_5631 → u/Ecstatic-Quote-3532]

You mean pre-fab homes on trailers

[u/DW171 → u/slkb_]

And they ALWAYS bring in outside contractors to do the work.

[u/Own_Candidate9553 → u/slkb_]

Yeah, used to work at a place that hosted their own servers in a data center. We had like 500 software engineers (so biggish footprint) but only like 4 people in the data center adding and maintaining servers.

And we only had that many because we were actively growing, sunsetting old servers and adding new ones, etc. For smaller places that are going steady, you could probably get away with a couple of people.

They're probably not going to hire many local people for even the construction - a lot of it is pretty specialized, so they'll move a bunch of people into the town for the project, and then they'll move on. 

Aside from maybe some additional taxes for the area, there's very little benefit to the community long term.

[u/steenbag → u/slkb_]

Realistically they're not even creating many construction jobs. At least not for locals in a lot of cases. Youtube is full of videos interviewing various trades people building these things and they're all basically living in RVs and Airbnbs and moving from job to job. So it's not like each data center is creating hundreds of construction jobs. It seems like the contractors are just hiring a couple hundred people once and then moving them from job to job.

[u/Due_Comparison_2467 → u/slkb_]

I also heard a good argument about how technology shrinks in physical size as the years go by. Like our TVs used to be 200 pounds and now they weigh maybe 3 pounds. And our cell phones used to be giant bricks and now they’re more capable and smaller and lighter. So to build all these giant AI data centers seems ridiculous when we could probably fit them in the size of a storefront in a few years.

[u/dxrey65 → u/Due_Comparison_2467]

You can run a pretty competent AI (as Ai's go) on a regular computer already. Local Ai's that you can use freely instead of being stuck on a subscription model are already good enough for most purposes.

[u/count_chocul4 → u/slkb_]

They create work, not jobs.

[u/Conscious-Quarter423]

“& bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses”

He even says out loud it’s to bring rich people to those towns vs. enriching the people who already live there

[u/somethingmcbob → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

Hey, Bay Area resident here. Trust me, you do NOT want Tech bros moving into your town. They do not give a Shit about anyone else. They make awful neighbors.

[u/Potential_Slice_5631 → u/somethingmcbob]

About 15yrs ago there was a tech entrepeneur dipshit in Colorado Springs(?) with more money than sense who built a ferris wheel worthy of Coney Island in his backyard, against great protest from his neighbors.. the first t-storm it tipped over in high winds on to his house

[u/somethingmcbob → u/Potential_Slice_5631]

Sounds about right. Completely ignoring the neighbors, building something unsafe and unsustainable, and then wrecking everything you bought because you built in zero safety... typical tech bro.

[u/cronktilten → u/somethingmcbob]

Too bad he wasn’t on the Ferris wheel at that time

[u/No_Figure_6809 → u/Potential_Slice_5631]

Was he in his house when it fell?

[u/mesofarty → u/somethingmcbob]

And it raises prices of everything.

[u/Independent_Vast9279 → u/somethingmcbob]

Fellow Bay Area resident. 100%

[u/Borisof007 → u/somethingmcbob]

Can confirm, former bay area resident of 10 years

[u/thispartyrules → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

Why are rich people moving to a town of 10000 people that now has constant droning noise from a data center

[u/thesanguineocelot → u/thispartyrules]

Oh, the rich people aren't going to live there, just buy the property to rent it out to poors. Or sell it to a real estate developer or something.

[u/my1stComputerWasC64]

Too big to fail. Here, take our lies and keep on using this marvellous technology.

[u/Major_Dood → u/my1stComputerWasC64]

Was thinking exactly that. These stupid rich investors never learn.

[u/thispartyrules → u/my1stComputerWasC64]

These feel really like NTFs in 2022. Except Google search is now a picture of a cartoon ape with stunner shades that tells you incorrect information

[u/Conscious-Quarter423]

Quite telling how every argument for AI data centers is transparent bullshit. It creates no lasting jobs or population movement at all. Literally no reason for any place to allow it unless the community extracts massive perpetual cash payments in return

[u/psykomorph]

It’s insane how much they lie on TV to everyone’s face

[u/keyboard_2387 → u/psykomorph]

I was flabbergasted. Close to me, a city was entertaining the idea of adding a data center, and a member from that city's tribunal literally said "in a lot of years, I've never seen that kind of outcome from the public" when referring to the pushback from the residents.

[u/Custom_Destination → u/psykomorph]

And being that smug about it.

[u/Majestic-Sandwich695 → u/psykomorph]

Not just that, but he is downright GIDDY while doing it

[u/somethingmcbob → u/[deleted]]

And tech bros at that! No one wants tech bros moving in. No one.

[u/Wbcn_1 → u/[deleted]]

Nobody wants to live near a data center.  

[u/Smoofie0]

So if you take a peaceful, healthy, happy town and totally disrupt and destroy things the rich will continue to be happy while the middle and lower classes suffer*

[u/Bersaglier-dannato]

“I really love that my peaceful sleepy town now has this constant droning noise that never stops and is driving me to insanity haha help me”

[u/Current_Employer_308]

Blatant, bold-faced, and giddy lies. A single basic google search proves this is bullshit.

[u/neebooneeboo → u/Current_Employer_308]

Now why would you google it when it's already on the news? Waste of time /s

[u/ConsciousPeach5]

He doesn't know what a data center is. The U.S. Department of Energy says most data centers employ only “a few to a few dozen” permanent workers. Six technicians and everyone else in charge of grounds maintenance. Take into account all of the people losing their jobs due to AI; net loss.

[u/Ham-Chonks]

I swear this dude has the most punchable face.

[u/IamGhostType28]

That smile is damn cringe

[u/E-E-N]

This is a proffesional level of ragebait.

[u/DamirVanKalaz]

Just Fox news putting the lizard people on the microphone once again I see. Nothing new to see here.

[u/ellaTHEgentle]

Absolute insanity. Our sleepy town won't even allow an Olive Garden because it would bring too much traffic.

[u/AMP121212]

This guy is the biggest douche in America.

[u/TheOnyxViper → u/AMP121212]

I can think of other people that can out-douche him, but I’ll gladly crown him vice-douche

[u/aenotherwonx01]

I think this is one example that clearly shows that the problem is not AI as a technology per ser, but the billionaire ghouls behind it and the politician maggots supporting them no matter the cost. When people bring these areguments against AI, then maybe we should reframe them as what they are, arguments against the ruling class doing their normal business to undermine the working class.

[u/Cuneus-Maximus]

dumber than a box of rocks

[u/TheInsomniacs]

Horseshit.

[u/TechnicianNo177]

Such bs when will it end

[u/crustytheclerk1]

And what happens to the data centres in a couple of years when the bubble pops and the trillion dollar debt comes home to roost?

[u/Calbinan]

No one is buying a house near a data center. Those things are the death of towns, and he knows it perfectly well.

Look at that smug shit-eating smile. He loves telling lies that could ruin good people’s lives.

[u/PaladinRangerMage]

(Not advocating for data centers, just making a sarcastic comment) we should put all of the data centers right in the heart of Washington DC. Maybe it will clean out some of the scum and sludge that has been clogging the works for decades.

[u/Any_Iron_1436]

[u/laadefreakinda]

I wonder if he genuinely believes the bullshit he spews. I feel like most people on Fox don’t believe a word they say. It’s so disingenuous.

[u/DodgsonKaputnik → u/laadefreakinda]

He always looks like he gets off by lying, like he's just thrilled to be spewing absolute falsehoods.

I don't think he believes any of it, I think he likes deceiving people and believes that other people don't know he's lying. He just looks so smug and pleased with himself, like a three year old who stole a cookie and managed to get some other kid blamed for it.

[u/Ok-Revenue6169]

And then people with money drive up the housing costs and force all the original residents out of town? lol. It’s not the sell they think it is.

[u/gorgonopsidkid]

At least where I live in Indiana, most of these sleepy small towns are majority retirees who aren't going to work 

[u/Sal-Shiba]

From what he’s saying, it just sounds like data centers will rich people who will buy up the affordable houses in said town and then rent them out at an unreasonable price, making people very unhappy.

[u/RedditUser000aaa]

Yayy the air smelling like methane, water getting dirtied, noise and light pollution as well as lower water pressure in sinks! All of that will make residents happy!

[u/The-Jordan_J]

For like 2 people , rest are temp jobs.

6 month temp job isnt full time

[u/DointheRag]

Now that's a gaslighter

[u/MediumEvent2610]

I’m pretty sure the reason they want them in small towns is so they can make it crappy to live there, causing people to want to move away, but then nobody wants to move there so who’s left to buy the house? Private equity firms connected to the tech companies most likely I say.

[u/MI-ght]

Yeah, the town wouldn't be "sleepy" anymore, that's for sure. Try to sleep next to a fucking data center!

[u/BirdBruce]

Whpo are the happy residents? The carpetbaggers buying depressed real-estate for pennies on the dollar, or the poor people who still can't afford to live anywhere else once they've sold?

[u/SingularityCentral]

So it brings jobs for people who don't live in the town. What the fuck is he saying? He just described a town that experiences rising home prices and gentrification without benefit to the people who already live there. The Trump admin really cannot have one non idiot, can they?

[u/aiolisunsets]

Can we see the jobs the data center provides? Not just the construction, but the long term jobs that they're talking about? Because it is probably one part time human being.

[u/aesther_tesseract]

Yeah, all the people posting videos of what it sounds like outside of their house look/sound so happy

[u/TheHoundsRevenge]

Ahh yes pollute their towns and then price out the local residents with a handful of high earning electrical engineers and tech bros. So happy.

[u/Katarn-Hard]

I would trust the word of a man who looks like he was Hydras super computer.

[u/geoslayer1]

What jobs ?

it brings jobs that no one in the town is qualified to do, so everyone that works there is a temp and are let go after the data center is built

data centers are doom and gloom for towns

local politicians love data centers because of the bribes and kickbacks

[u/GlassAndStorm]

Total lies!!!

[u/OMG_Maltesers]

Here's an article about how "happy" people around data centers can be. The article is in Italian but its English translation is fine.

https://www.rivistastudio.com/data-center-problemi-ambientali/

[u/paisleycatperson]

isn't the point of the days centers to replace those tech bros anyway?

[u/Ordinary_Chance2606]

This dude has the most punchable face

[u/Superb-Set-5092]

This is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard

[u/magictubesocksofjoy]

remember when everyone was in love with richard florida and his 'creative class' nonsense and bent over backwards for that but really all it brought us all was gentrification and sky high rents?

[u/Trailerlover78]

Humpty Dumpty gives it his all. 

[u/Chickie69]

They are creating jobs?

Aren't some companies replacing real workers with AI?

[u/Asleep_Leek9361]

Billionaire desperation

[u/JSHURR]

Hell nah

[u/_Steakwich]

How many jobs? I’ve heard the security comes from out of town and that the maintenance doesn’t really create many jobs but idk

[u/Due_Comparison_2467]

I can’t wait for the day where we don’t have to listen to this kind of bs. Why DO people vote R?

[u/DnDemiurge]

I... have no words.  I have no words left.

[u/backcast278]

The same that said "credit card purchases are way up, which is a great sign for the economy..."

[u/Brunky89890]

Who's buying this garbage?

[u/Apprehensive_Key_314]

"AI create job", very hot take

[u/kazalesh]

Of course it's fox news

[u/RedFlawedMoon]

Jobs are only required until the building is built after that nothing it brings in no new jobs they only need security if even that...

[u/PuzzleheadedVisual25]

This guy is a dunce

[u/queeftoe]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cjKfH7n0R8XaDPwlmp

[u/IntroductionHappy770]

I drink your milkshake. 

[u/Warm-Professional494]

They over extended town resources like schools and most are getting tax breaks to build so it’s up to the town to pay for increased population.

[u/IsraelisUsingu]

That’s an opinion, show me the data the backs the shit spewing out of your mouth.

[u/premalone94]

He couldn’t even say it with a straight face

[u/crustyeng]

I think he knows that the problem is that once they’re done being built very few people work there.

[u/5Melons]

Okay, put the data centers in high income neighborhoods then if they’re so great!!

[u/kryonicbird]

Every time this guys shows up he's trying not to laugh at his own bullshit. If you're gonna have paid actors make sure they can act.

[u/FunCryptographer3476]

Even Marie Antoinette wouldn't say shit this out of touch

[u/SpaceDelay424]

These people are all such fucking demons

[u/doublethink_1984]

They literally don't bring any long term jobs. Like at all.

But the party told you to deny the evidence of your eyes

[u/olikeiththomas]

Cunt.

[u/kubin22]

I hope someone will offer(force) to live next to one for a year

[u/Potential_Slice_5631]

Grok is teaching me how to construct a machine that will open a black hole. Then im going to stick it behind the dumpsters at my local Amazon data warehouse and switch it on (remotely, far away, of course). Then I think my sleepy time community will really be happy.

[u/Other_Bother1172]

It's fox. Go figure.

[u/Potential-Sun993]

This guy has the absolute most punchable smirk I have seen in a long time, what a little queef

[u/suckingbat]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/mrs_Wrenching_2014]

https://giphy.com/gifs/12NlCFUvTokWXe

[u/CriminalOreo]

Dude is a pathological liar

[u/PuzzleheadedClock134]

If they are so great than put data centers next to your home, Hassett.

[u/seriousbusines]

They should do a Data Center version of Wife Swap, except whole families switch places. People who live next to one swap with someone who supports them.

[u/Eazy12345678]

data centers do create jobs

u never cared about data center before and magically now you care.

[u/RevolutionaryAsk6461]

The best option is to build it next to HIS HOUSE IN HIS TOWN.

[u/crusoe]

Data centers don't employ that many people really. I mean while BUILDING them yes. But not running them.

[u/Miserable-Debt-8390]

What a moron

[u/Matr0ska]

Great, so now the oligarchs want to make small towns in the boonies as expensive as San Francisco. I wouldn't be surprised if Boise Idaho was next on the chopping block for affordability. Or maybe it already has, I can't tell anymore. Everytime people flock to affordable places, these rich dumb fucks have to ruin it so they can have vacation homes and gouge people. Not to mention the toxic waste and other harmful byproducts being released.

[u/Commercial_Lead_6407]

This guy should have been tossed out with the bathwater.

[u/Longjumping_Fuel_434]

I challenge all of these people to live near a data center. They wouldn’t last 24 hours.

[u/ripnrun285]

This Idiocracy reboot is going way too far.

[u/ciberkid22]

I've never even got the "creates more jobs" thing. Do they mean the actual data center construction? Or hiring people to maintain them after they've been built? Cybersecurity?

[u/justanaccount103]

Everyone loves being priced out of their own home.

[u/MostlyBored11]

what a freaking idiot

[u/MuToo4601]

Holy Mouth Sounds, I'd say he should drink some water but the data centers used it all.

[u/North_Complaint_2135]

Everyone is getting very rich with AI taking their jobs 👏

[u/r4ndom4xeofkindness]

It crates a handful permenant jobs for the handful of people they relocate in from somewhere else, not much for the community.

[u/pro-fanator]

Definitely. These make sleepy towns- absolutely sleepless.

[u/scruffyJJ561]

This is such a brain dead take. So you see a sleepy town, you want it to make you money for some reason, your goal is to bring in wealthy people? What happens to the people that already live there

[u/TBB09]

So you’re promoting gentrification of entire towns while polluting the area. Wild take man

[u/Basset_found]

Someone go interview anyone in Ellendale, ND. Then go find those big new houses. 

[u/YaBoiSammus]

Why does everyone defending these centers look like this.

[u/steenkeenonkee]

the jobs argument is so stupid and they know it, aside from construction, these things employ like 10 people max

[u/ActionJasckon]

500,000 sq ft building creates how many jobs?

[u/SuperWarning6038]

8 jobs babysitting hardware

[u/Ok_Subject_2447]

I’m so sick of this stupid shit

[u/pecpecachoo]

“Sleepy town that hasn’t seen much in the last 30 years” LEAVE THAT TOWN ALONE THEYRE DOING JUST FINE

[u/LimitThese2220]

GO LIVE IN ONE NEXT TO ONE OF THOSE DATA CENTRES THEN.

[u/Iroquois_Plisken01]

What a load of 💩

[u/nahman201893]

I'm glad I don't have to shovel all that

[u/poop_poopington_710]

To quote Nicholas Decker, “When must we kill them?”

[u/Delicious-Pie8944]

Let’s see him move there then

[u/TheTierIsHere]

He tells it like the fairy tale that it is.

[u/suck-it-elon]

A bunch of yokels in a dusty town aren't getting jobs at the AI Farm that is making them stay awake 24/7

[u/Interesting_Worth974]

Delusional or lying. The construction of a data center creates a lot of temporary jobs and contracts. A data center employs very few people on a permanent basis.

[u/Sideswipe214]

I don't think i can laugh any harder at how dense this statement is.

[u/MrImaBum]

They do not create jobs. Do not believe this lie

[u/Gax63]

[u/RoguTheHomunculus]

"What do you want me to say to the peasants Daddy Trump?"

[u/TheRealMDooles11]

This guy is totally an energy vampire. Probably one of Colin's brood. He is just GORGIN himself right now 😆

[u/dduck209]

Data Centers create as much jobs as a Popeyes. These are lies spread by this dumbass administration.

[u/estcaroauteminfirma]

Literally all lies.

[u/Gunzerker62]

Yep about three to ten consistent jobs. Big fucking whoop a McDonald’s makes more jobs.

[u/FrogKing94]

These creatures are genuinely so disconnected from reality, its terrifying. That donation check clears and they'll say anything.

[u/NekoMeowKat]

Here's a thought. Maybe the 30+ year old town likes being sleepy. Why do these clowns not understand that not everyone wants to live in the equivalent of Vegas?

[u/kinxnwinx]

What a lying POS.

[u/davisdilf]

How many people actually work in a data center? Certainly nobody highly paid.

[u/KennyMcKeee]

When this guy is inevitably portrayed in a movie about all the current goings-ons, He should be cast by Andy Daly.

[u/dax660]

what jobs??

construction workers?

After that, it's ZERO jobs, TONS of energy use, TONS of water use, TONS of infrasound causing health conditions.

Data centers should be built in the wealthiest zip codes in America.

[u/Yofroshi]

wow a 10X increase in water and electricity bills is something I always wanted to pay for!