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Uhhh.... I won't comment on the other stuff but I can confidently say the electrician that comes to your house is not the electrician who is wiring these data centers. Completely different crews.
Well yeah, it’s right there in the first sentence
They’re talking about commercial electricians. Because of all these data centers being built electricians are being moved around because of the money being thrown at these projects. For example, Dallas has been a hub for tech sector projects for a while; because of all the new data centers being built in Texas there are out of state electricians coming in for these projects from neighboring states like OK. Funny tho, now that Oklahoma is starting its own data center boom, now electricians from OK would just rather stay there which is causing projects in TX to stall.
An Inside Wireman does not do the work of a Residential Wireman. They CAN, they just don't. Why would this reporter need an Inside Wireman?
He doesn’t mention residential wireman anywhere in the article. He’s quoting someone who notes that skilled labor is moving away from complex construction project, such as multi family, to data centers. Multifamily is in the commercial sector rather than residential.
The quoted person does mention residential, but attributes the decline in residential building to things like material prices and other factors. Lumber has been high for quite sometime which really impacts residential as they rely on lumber heavily for beams and framing, whereas commercial uses metal for beams and framing.
That's just flat out incorrect
edit: I'm done with this. It's obvious that the people arguing with me have no idea what construction work is like.
You didn’t read the article and it shows.
I do commercial and government construction. I see this shit daily. I even work in electrical and low voltage construction, so yeah.
It's also weird to single out electricians when it's the construction companies themselves that are being dragged across the globe to the few places that will auto stamp new data centers. There's a private compound in the Western US that doesn't allow reporters and is blowing millions to bring workers in from thousand of miles away. Rumor is local crews weren't considered because they'd be more likely to report environmental concerns in their own backyard.
Huh, where's that?
Last data center I was on outside Cheyenne, WY there were about 100 iron workers from Texas doing their thing.
Fernley, details these days are hard to find since the tech companies started moving in.
https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2019/jul/12/45-million-industrial-sale-closes-in-fernley-secon/