But NOW, when silicone valley wants to spend TRILLIONS on workers to pour concrete, weld, install wiring, plumbing, etc – Clayton Tucker is vehemently opposed because “muh water!” or something.
Data centers use 0.4% of all water used in Texas.
TONS of new power plants are going in to run these things – and those power plants ALSO needs workers to build! Talk about your multiplier effect!
The way I see it, if Clayton is right and the genius tech bros are wrong, then there is STILL a huge transfer of wealth to American workers – and the data centers will sit there useless like Twisted Oak restaurant at the north end of Lampasas. It will be a huge ripoff of the tech dorks by the blue collar guys. I’m fine with that.
If Clayton is WRONG (historically the case) then the workers STILL win AND we get this miracle AI that solves a ton of problems. Either way, the money flows from Silly-con Valley to the guy welding and wiring. That’s a good thing.
From Bartenders To Builders: Data Centers Drive America’s Blue-Collar Comeback
A seismic shift is underway in the U.S. labor market after a quarter-century of America’s industrial base being hollowed out following China’s entry into the WTO, a period marked by the decline of goods-producing jobs while leisure and hospitality employment surged.
The driver of the current job shift is the data center buildout phase, which is expected to require millions of new jobs across construction, manufacturing, electrical trades, power infrastructure, and the broader industrial supply chain. Additionally, reshoring critical supply chains will require even more goods-producing jobs, which are high-paying and pay far more than low-wage jobs such as bartending and waiting.
Nancy Lazar, Piper Sandler’s chief global economist and head of the firm’s economics research team, published a note on Sunday showing what happened to the U.S. labor market after China joined the WTO in 2001.
The result was a long-term hollowing out of America’s industrial base, marked by a sharp decline in higher-paying goods-producing jobs while lower-quality leisure and hospitality jobs surged. Education and health services jobs also continued to move up and to the right.
But there was good news around 2010, when goods-producing jobs began to reverse. Lazar’s note suggests that the trend is now set to accelerate as the data center, power grid, and AI infrastructure buildout drives a new wave of demand for industrial labor.
Lazar continued:
Bullish On Goods Producing Jobs vs. Hotel & Restaurant Jobs.
When China joined the WTO in 2001, U.S. goods producing jobs began a decade of decline, while leisure & hospitality, and education & health jobs continued to rise …
… so today, goods producing jobs are less than half those of low-paying service jobs – their share was over 50% in the mid-1980s.
That employment mix shift gave us the bifurcated consumer, as lower paying jobs gained share. Goods producing jobs pay more than overall service producing jobs – and lots more than leisure & hospitality, or education & health care jobs.
Good news: That mix is now shifting the other way, as the long-running (not just tech) capex cycle raises productivity and margins, encouraging adding headcount.
Look at relative earnings growth, by sector, below.
Combine that with falling energy prices and (we believe) slowing core inflation, and we’re on the lookout for narrowing bifurcation among consumers. That would indeed be good news. We’re watching our Daily consumer confidence survey, non-investor component, closely.
Industrial labor demand is likely to remain a strong trend for several years, with $800 billion in hyperscaler capex being deployed for data center buildouts just this year alone – and don’t worry about humanoid robots entering construction sites until the next decade.
However, college graduates, mostly burdened by insurmountable student debt, are watching in disbelief as corporate America rapidly automates white-collar jobs out of existence.
Last week, Goldman analysts led by Pierfrancesco Mei identified the 20 college majors most exposed to AI job disruption.
Most and Least AI-Exposed Jobs
It’s a boon for Main Street and blue-collar workers, rather than college-educated elites. Liberals are furious that SpaceX welders with no college degrees have been minted into instant millionaires after the latest IPO.
The unemployed socialist bum who was handed a free family “farm” but has never bothered to plant anything is now making up stories about Texas farms vanishing at a disastrous rate – implying we’re all going to starve imminently….
Nah. It was more like half that in 2025 – 38 per week…
But even THAT number is misleading. Here is the view from 30,000 feet. A view that a moron like Clayton never considers because has the mildewed pea brain of a socialist…
So, over Clayton’s entire short lifespan, the number of farms has…..gone up by 4,000.
This is a good thing. It frees huge swaths of the population from the backbreaking work of farming. Clayton Tucker would know it’s backbreaking work if he had ever actually performed it.
As far as I can tell, Hawk (who clearly IS a real, salt-of-the-earth Texas land guy) is complaining about “them” (RRC?) fucking a bunch of stuff up and leaving zombie wells.
As a quick reminder, Hawk the oil and gas man might want to know that Clayton Tucker the radical left-wing socialist wants to completely abolish fossil fuels and cover the landscape with solar panels and shitty pinwheels….
Of course, Ag Commissioner has nothing to do with any of this, either – just like the data center stuff.
The rich irony is that Clayton’s MOM worked for the Railroad Commission for THIRTY YEARS. So in essence, Clayton’s own mommy (who he lives with at age 35) is partially responsible for the mess that Clayton is standing there pretending to care about for a photo shoot.
BONUS FOOTAGE: Clayton forgot to strap on his handgun prop for this photo shoot. Whoops.
Also, at the 53-second mark, a pudgy, doughy white Clayton squats down and pretends to sniff or taste the dirt in an attempt to look like he knows what he’s doing.
Not content to make up ‘facts’ about electricity rates and water usage, many dummies are resorting to the “privacy” argument. They don’t want Big Tech invading their lives!
This is probably their weakest “argument” by far. There are several reasons why:
#1 – morons like Clayton Tucker and his old lady followers ALL have MULTIPLE social media accounts they post EVERYTHING on. They have been doing this for over a decade now. They post the places they visit, who they hang out with, where they vacation, names of their kids – you’d be shocked the amount of information that MORONS share for the entire world to see.
They don’t need to “invade your privacy” you dolts: you give up everything for FREE!
#2 – these same people walk around with a CELL PHONE in their pocket or by their bedside 24 hours a day. That cell phone tracks you, listens to you and records thousands of pictures and videos – all easily tracked. Yet you don’t seem too bothered by that. Your “smart TV” can also do this.
#3 – Clayton Tucker wants BIG GOVERNMENT that runs healthcare (single payer), transportation, decides what you eat, etc. The kind of BIG GOVERNMENT that runs your entire life, like Clayton Tucker demands, ALSO knows every single thing about you, too. He doesn’t have a problem with that because he thinks Big Government knows better than you do how to run your life.
#4 – Clayton Tucker had zero interest in privacy during Covid. He wanted everyone forced into masking and ‘vaccines’ and wanted to know where everyone was at all times. He wanted anyone who questioned the official bullshit narrative REMOVED from social media for “disinformation.”
He was the ultimate nanny-state asshole between 2020 and 2023.
#5 – Back in 2013 when Obama was green-lighting Project Bumblehive in Utah, Clayton Tucker did not say a word about it. Libertarians like me were yelling about the massive surveillance that would be turned inwards by the NSA and used to spy on Americans.
The “surveillance state” horse was let out of the barn a very long time ago and you all said nothing. That ship has sailed. A 10 acre Twitter data center in your city isn’t going to change that one way or the other, moron.
The NSA has been spying on you for a very long time. Clayton Tucker not only didn’t make a peep about that in 2013, he was actually over in China groping 5-year-old boys and doing who-knows-what else during that exact time period.
The latest lie is that the lights around data centers are “disrupting breeding cycles” – lol. Who says so? Well, RANCHERS, of course!
What ranchers?? Let’s search the Internet for proof!
OH MY GOD! Sounds scary! Oh wait…this is Clayton Tucker, the compulsive liar making these claims. Let’s Google/AI query this obvious garbage and see if there is ONE story on the entire Internet that can back up his delusions:
Let’s see what comes back after 80 bazillion pages, news stories and archives are searched in a few seconds….the entirety of human history and knowledge….
No way! ANOTHER lie?? Say it ain’t so!
So now we have:
Data centers cause heart murmurs in kids (ridiculous) Data centers create heat that can be felt 5 miles away (LOL!!)
Data Centers cause stillbirths in cows…let’s check that one too…
Do we now live in a day and age where it’s NOT shameful and embarrassing to get caught lying over and over and over again? I grew up in the 1970s. My dad would be ashamed and humiliated if I went out into the world and made up massive piles of bullshit repeatedly JUST to scam money off of old ladies. He would beat the shit out of me for that, and rightfully so.
Howard Tucker apparently doesn’t care if his idiot liar son goes all over the Internet and spews demonstrably false nonsense to grift money off of old people. He truly does not care how his moron kid reflects on his family and his upbringing.
Howard and Terry Tucker did an absolutely ATROCIOUS job of raising this kid. He’s an embarrassment to his family, to REAL ranchers and an embarrassment to the entire city of Lampasas where he lives with his mommy at age 35.
Nothing shocking here from the America-hating commie. He makes sure to acknowledge the silly-assed ‘Juneteenth’ nonsense but when it was Memorial Day back on May 25? Total silence. What a piece of shit.
On Memorial Day he remembered nothing. He was busy grifting over “data centers” that use 0.4% of Texas water:
Dear Texas conservative who is irrationally petrified over the data center nonsense and thinks that Clayton Tucker is a “good choice” because “he cares.”
#1 – Clayton Tucker does NOT care about data centers. It wasn’t even on his radar five months ago. This is a grift. He’s been unemployed forever and lives with his parents. This is the only thing that gets him attention, so he’s running with it. Five months ago he told every interviewer he was running for Ag Commissioner because he had food allergies.
The Texas Agriculture Commissioner has no direct legal authority to stop or issue a moratorium on data center construction. However, the commissioner can use their political influence (“the bully pulpit”) and propose federal legislative frameworks to shape development and protect agricultural land.
#3 – this is a BIG one for you supposed conservatives: Clayton Tucker is in bed with radical Muslims and has been promoting their rise to power for YEARS now. A vote for the “nice, concerned data center fellow” is a vote for a radical-left, open-borders, muslim-loving socialist. This is a fact.
Here is a well-meaning but retarded woman all excited that Sid gave her “permission” to vote for a socialist. What she doesn’t understand is that Sid is just pissed he lost his primary. Sid is a huge douchebag for burning down the house on the way out. Total piece of shit. But Debbie thinks he gave her ‘permission’…..
This is the damage that fat asshole Sid is doing. I hope he gets screwworm in his tiny little pecker.
But when you go to Debbie’s Twitter page, you can see she (rightfully) wants the scumbag muzzies OUT of Texas:
Ditched his own parents on Easter and drove 3.5 hours to kiss the ass of Sasquatch. Absolutely fucking gross.
So the guy you think is going to stop data centers CANNOT DO SO but what he CAN do is a ton of damage as a retarded, incompetent, unemployed, far-left, muzzie-loving scum bag.
Vote wisely.
Oh, here is a video of a typical muzzie piece of shit trying to rape a 10-year-old boy. Pretty typical for them:
Heartbreaking. A 10-year-old Afghan boy resists and tries to escape sexual assault by a Taliban commander.
Thousands of Afghan boys are victims of this practice called bacha bazi, where they are forced to dance and then abused by older men. pic.twitter.com/w9it3AUJtl
P.S. – feel free to post links to this article all over Clayton’s Twitter pages, Facebook pages and others since he has blocked most of my burner accounts by now. All it takes is 10 seconds to help stop this anti-American, commie piece of shit from getting elected.Post it over and over!
Comrade Clayton the fake rancher has been having a bird over the government “not doing everything it can” to stop the spread of the screwworm…
Every proven tool like strong, monitored borders??Dummy.
Of course, he never says what HE would do – he just asks you to hand over your email (‘sign my petition’) so he can spam you with fundraising emails for the rest of your life.
One of the most OBVIOUS things that any country does is put up physical barriers and monitor what is coming and going:
International border procedures for preventing the New World Screwworm (NWS) rely on a combination of quarantine, biological barriers, strict pet and livestock import requirements, and active surveillance. These protocols are primarily enforced by national agricultural and health authorities to stop the fly from entering or spreading.
In other words, you keep a close eye on and surveil animals crossing over international borders. This makes total sense, of course. It is the LEAST you would do!
But when it comes to third-world illegal invaders infested with tuberculosis and measles and God knows what else (possibly the screwworm itself!) Comrade Clayton gets very angry and calls that a “silly” idea:
And once the infested scumbags are inside the border, you THEN announce that they should be able to stay no matter what and federal law enforcement shouldn’t be able to undo the problem that was created:
Clayton Tucker logic: “Borders work for protecting the food supply unless they block low-IQ, third-world future Dem voters from getting in. Then I don’t want any borders at all!”
Don’t tell socialist rodeo clown Clayton Tucker this, but those evil oligarchs are at it again!
When he is not occupied trying to steal all the water, waste all the electricity and give heart murmurs to all the little children, Michael Dell is busy donating more money to education than Clayton Tucker could earn in 5,000 lifetimes.
Horrible!
These Evil Oligarchs should try to be more like Clayton Tucker: broke, smug, sanctimonious and donating exactly $0 to any cause. I can tell you with 100% certainty he has never even given $1 to any local charities in Lampasas like Boys and Girls Club, Texas CattleWomen, Badger Builders or anything else.
Oh wait. He DID donate a couple boxes of Froot Loops to the food pantry once five years ago when Bidenflation was destroying everyone’s purchasing power.
He also made sure to signal his virtue loudly by posting images on Facebook’s water-guzzling data centers….
Has never donated an ounce of meat or single veggie from his fake ranch/farm!
Those would be the Froot Loops loaded with Red Dye #40, Yellow Dye #5 and Blue Due #1 – the same chemical garbage he rants about all the time now. LOL. And he put it all in PLASTIC BAGS while whining about plastic in the environment! He may be the dumbest fuck alive.
Additives and chemicals like red dye #40 and yellow dye #5, you horse’s ass??
The kid who lives with mom, pays no rent, has no mortgage, has no wife and kids, has no property taxes or any other normal expenses is busy complaining about food prices “SKYROCKETING!”
But is that even true? Let’s look at grocery prices versus the general level of inflation for the last six years or so:
As you can see, the years shit really got out of control both nominally AND compared to the general price level (currency debasement from Covidiots like Clayton Tucker who wanted ‘stimulus’) was 2021 and 2022 – the Biden years.
Those were also the years Clayton didn’t make a peep about “SKYROCKETING” food prices. He was busy getting beaten like a rented mule as he ran for City council in Lampasas.
He still hadn’t adopted the Fake Rancher persona yet. So he was busy blabbering about dog parks and Internet connections back then…olivious to grocery prices because he lives with mom.
NOW, he wants us to believe prices are SKYROCKETING even as they pretty much match the general level of inflation in EVERYTHING (currency debasement thanks to Keynesian retards).
Here you can see 900 calories of nutrition on sale for pocket change. LITERALLY I can find $1.67 worth of coins under the seat in my truck if I looked there. You doss twat.
Comrade Clayton’s ACTUAL problem isn’t prices. It’s his income…which is $0. When you are a lazy, unemployed, broke bastard like him, EVERYTHING will seem expensive because you have no money. Likewise, a private jet seems expensive to me because I don’t make $5 million a year. These $1.67 eggs seem expensive to a broke bum because his pockets have nothing but lint in them.
