The enslavement begins!!! 🫪 AI is looking for thousands of people to dig trenches for internet cables

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/at-t-needs-more-workers-to-help-install-new-fiber-lines-to-power-ai-centers-267851333577

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46376173

Not to mention the environmental impact this will unquestionably have.

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HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 37d (3 replies)

Fiber is at least useful, and coast to coast dark fiber could be repurposed after the bubble bursts, unlike most of the specialty hardware in an AI center

ShaggyBlarney@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 37d

Hey now, the massive buildings could also be turned into giant lazer tag or paintball arenas...or Go Kart! /s

FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 37d (1 reply)

Less people that have to use the natzis satellite internet.

HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d

Exactly, it’s wild that a so-called “developed” country doesn’t have every house and business wired with at least high speed if not fiber