In Your Backyard: Jobs, Growth, and the Race We're Actually In

Published on August 30, 2026

This week we take on the objection that scares people most: that AI, and the data centers that run it, are coming for their jobs. This one is different from the water and power arguments, because it isn't really a factual dispute so much as a forecast, and forecasts about technology and employment have a long, undistinguished history of being wrong in both directions.