Today, on the morning update, I explore the left’s real jobs narrative and share a clip of a regular guy who shows us how to undermine a pernicious left-wing narrative in just a few seconds.
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S.2 016 (Ep. 280) Links:
- https://townhall.com/news/dmitri-bolt/2026/10/07/data-center-jobs-are-temporary-every-job-in-the-field-is-temporary-n2684234
- https://x.com/ConorCoutts/status/2107544029885780036
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Edited Transcript:
Welcome to your Friday Groktober 9th, 2026 morning update.
One of the professional left’s favorite phrases is “good-paying jobs.”
If we steal money from people who actually earned it, the government can create good-paying jobs. Every project, grant, loan, theft, good-paying jobs.
The problem with this methodology, obviously, is that it creates a job at the expense of a citizen or a business who could spend it on something the economy “or they” actually need, creating a real job
Good-paying or otherwise. Where entry-level positions actually create the opportunity to learn skills that lead to a real, good-paying job.
Without all that legalized tax and spent robbery.
But the left loves their good-paying jobs phrase. It therefore follows that anything the professional left dislikes or opposes can’t possibly be creating a good-paying job.
Case in point.
Quote: For skilled trade workers, every job is temporary. Whether he’s building a warehouse, a manufacturing plant, a refinery, or a data center, the assignment ends when the project is finished. That’s how construction works. If temporary construction jobs were grounds for rejecting a project, America would have a lot less infrastructure and a lot more workers twiddling their thumbs.
I have a son who works in construction, and he was recently part of a project to build a restaurant. When they finished, he did not go to work there. He went on to the next construction project. And ironically, there are a lot more of those if the government spends less time robbing people and businesses of money they legally earned.
Money they want to take and redirect towards things that are more important to them.
When the left says democracy, it isn’t about rights and liberties, unless you meant the right of Democrats to take liberties with money other people earned.
As for AI data centers, depending on the size of the campus and the project, it can create thousands of additional high-skilled, high-paying jobs for up to thirty-six months.
This has a direct impact on the local economy, including an increase in demand for food and lodging. Fuel, equipment rental, materials, supplies, and more. Tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars that wouldn’t otherwise be there end up in the local economy a demand that creates what? Real jobs.
After completion, the data center itself will require probably roughly fifty to a hundred mostly highly skilled individuals, although there are opportunities for plenty of jobs that do not require a four-year degree, good-paying jobs. With salaries ranging from seventy-four to a hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year.
Quote: Brookings’ analysis of counties receiving their first large data center found data processing employment up about 56% and communications employment up about 43% over the first decade, implying roughly 100 to 200 additional jobs in a typical treated county. NBER shift share estimates likewise show positive effects on data processing and total employment that persist after the construction peak.
Data centers also increase demand for high paying technical skill jobs in telecommunications, supply chain, and so on.
Loudoun County, Virginia, received on the order of 38% of general fund revenue from data centers, while they occupy roughly three to four percent of commercial land, supporting repeated real property tax rate reductions.
Prince William County collections have reached the mid to high hundreds of millions; individual facilities (DeKalb County, Illinois) have produced 30 million plus annually, a large share for schools.
Quincy, Washington (examples) show data centers covering about 75% of property taxes and funding schools, a hospital, a library, and a fire station.
Pryor, Oklahoma, school assessed value growth linked to a hyperscale campus moved the district off state aid formulas.
School funding problem? AI data center.
Virginia’s data center industry has been estimated to support on the order of 74,000 jobs annually, construction plus ripple effects, and multi-billion dollar GDP contributions. Illinois projections for the current pipeline include roughly 300 million in additional annual property tax revenues, much of it for schools.
We’re talking about tens of thousands of private sector jobs, hundreds of thousands of them across the country. Associated infrastructure improvements, a commercial tax multiplier. Advanced energy infrastructure and power demand that can actually reduce the cost of your residential electricity bill.
Secondary benefits to the economy that don’t require laws to legalize theft of someone else’s property to create a good-paying job.
Which, as I noted above, creates much more fertile ground for high-skilled labor looking for that next temp job.
And the one after that.
That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you on Monday.
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