1Main point 114:50 ↗Powell McCormick says communities should choose whether to host Meta data centers and that the company needs to explain its investment and address electricity and water concerns.Source: All-In Podcast · AI review of transcript; paraphrase
Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta’s Future
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- 14:50 ↗
on? >> Sure. Well, I think first the questions that Jason raised are really legitimate questions. And I think we start with a premise that if a community doesn't want one of our data centers, they get to choose. They get to decide. But that we actually have to upfront and way more aggressively explain what our investment and partnership means. And we have a compact, a compact that Susan and Sheldon are describing. First, not just pay for your own electricity. Make sure that you're working to drive electricity costs down. The second is the water issue. It's very real in farmlands and rural communities, but there's
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fasttrack training program where you get all of your safety training. You get uh designated something called job site ready. So you can get the job. We at Meta guarantee you a job if you graduate on one of our data center sites and you have that certification with you whether you want to stay at our site or elsewhere. And the missing piece is that
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>> I think the thing that we unlocked is that we actually pay during the training what you would get if you are already in the job. It used to be that there's a very low fee or an apprentice fee for so long that it wasn't you know it wasn't the full pay payment of the job. And so we do that from the beginning. Um, and
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And so his belief is that the more you distribute this technology, the more people that have super intelligence and are able to reach their potential are able to have access to education and health care that they could have never imagined before, learning that they could have never achieved before is not only better for each of those individuals, but it's better for society as a whole. So he fundamentally just believes when he wrote in his piece the future is for everyone that the democratization of artificial intelligence will actually lead to a more stable society. That is just a
Publisher chapters
- 0:00 ↗Dina Powell McCormick joins The Besties!
- 1:52 ↗Impact of Meta's data center in Richland Parish, LA: $50K teacher checks, revitalizing a small town community
- 11:52 ↗How Meta is alleviating data center concerns: pollution, electricity, water, noise, aesthetics; Misinformation campaigns
- 19:57 ↗America's Workforce Academy, the job growth in re-industrializing America
- 26:58 ↗Meta's recent social media settlement, new rules for teens
- 35:25 ↗Meta glasses and Zuck's AI strategy
