Workers building the AI boom face what critics describe as an increasingly stark choice under capitalist pressures: take the work created by the data-centre build-out or risk being left behind economically.
The argument forms part of a broader critique of how overcapacity, slowing growth and competition can accelerate automation and squeeze workers. It comes as local opposition to AI infrastructure intensifies across the US and communities grapple with the economic and environmental costs of the rapid build-out.
