Some people comment that even if AI tech spending is a bubble, it will have the same benefit of leaving behind infrastructure like the dot-com bubble did. However, other critics indicate that LLM-hosting data centers will leave infrastructure designed pretty narrowly for LLM-hosting.
But here is what might be the lasting positive, should there be one–Meta is launching a $115 million training program for blue-collar workers to build AI data centers.
Those skills will be transferrable.
(Link via the Springfield Business Journal.)
