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by catigula 212 days ago
>The project will create approximately 800 permanent jobs

For $50 billion?

I think there's a serious problem here.

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> For $50 billion?

It’s Capex. Most home construction produces less than a single permanent job on average.

Probably not the best idea rhetorically to pick something people literally require to live and compare it against AI spending to make your point.
> Probably not the best idea rhetorically to pick something people literally require to live and compare it against AI spending to make your point

Dams. Power plants. This isn't a difficult set to extend.

AI spending is more on hardware than on jobs. That shouldn't be too great a surprise.

$62 million per job does seem a bit more hardware-heavy than reasonable, though...