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The graphs and data included in the article look legitimate but it's just embarrassingly misleading. For one, correlation does not equal causation, and by displaying a trend for nonresidential construction you imply AI data center is the cause of it. Second, the trend looks convincing only from the specific window in time and ignores the many years the government tracks this data.

I didn't expect anything more from the New York Times who wrote this suspiciously favorable article about Big Tech.

My take is that electricians and carpenters are a great profession. I have great respect for them. I would have also mentioned NVIDIA's worker programs to setup AI infrastructure but this article was too biased in favor of Meta.

Sources: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLNRESCONS

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLRESCONS