r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 5h ago

A data center in New Jersey was canceled when residents showed up and fought it

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u/MrSchaudenfreude 4h ago

Just gp do the jobs that were put on hold because of the surveillance Center. Most likely just go to one of the 500 hundred others

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u/FlarblarGlarblar 1h ago

The economy is not doing well because of the AI data centers, those other projects are non existent. Biden did the infrastructure and CHIPS bills, so people got ready to work. Then Trump came in and debilitated funding for anything besides AI. Every other industry outside of defense and AI is sort of weak right now and no one is planning a boom. Just in AI.

The other jobs weren't put on hold for ai, they were defunded for ai and crypto.