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Yeah I've ridden out economic highs and lows. This past year, data center orders were an all-time high and everything else was very low. Next year both are record highs. I'm not sure if you got the impression that I think AI is this awesome economic boom or that I even like it. I think it's all a bunch of hot air that probably is going blow up in everyone's face and that sucks, but the world will still keep moving. Even during 2008 or covid or the dotcom bust, there was still people working, myself included. Absolute worst case scenario, I lose my job and can't find another (unlikely considering how much experience I have in industrial), I can always just go wire houses with my buddy. I've done that for years on the side.
Like I was pretty much just commenting on the news, pleased to see it might turn into more manufacturing for the company I work for, while most of the comments on here missed the point entirely and thinks that it's saying "AI should be called manufacturing" and not that some of the biggest buildings in the country are going to require infrastructure manufactured in the states to build them.
I know this type of talk isn't about "me" and moreso what will happen to the economy and working people as a whole, but that will primarily affect things like the tech industry, which goes through this boom or bust cycle anyway. I don't see the AI bubble popping as everyone suddenly losing their jobs.
Of course the world will keep moving, my point is that post crash economy is going to be painful to live in. Eventually it'll even out or maybe the US will go the way of USSR and something new will be built in its place. The reason AI bubble popping will be particularly painful though is because so much of the economy is tied into it now. It's far worse than dotCom era.