Hyperscale Data Centre
December 13, 2024
By NZB3
This just in about the new Hyperscale Data Centre coming to Westgate, West Auckland. Apparently the woman pulling the strings (or public-facing) is Vanessa Sorenson.
Was only half-listening to her “interview” (really PR for ZB and probably comes with a recepit….) and forgot why I hit play. It was because I’m interested in West Auckland and in computers…
Then my ears pricked up at the very end when Sorenson said “…it will create about 134,000 new jobs across cloud adopting organisations and service providers.”
The Anarchist bullshit-detection meter needle spiked at that! CLOUD ADOPTING ORGANISATIONS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS.
So that’s what that waffle I tuned out was in aid of. She’s laying the ground work for massive employment cuts as AI computers cut down obsolete jobs like wheat before a particularly sharp and powerful mechanised harvester from the cover page of Farmers Machinery Monthly. I played it again.
“we feel that then there’s more high-powered paying jobs”
“basically, for people.” “So it’s really what we have seen.”
“And an IDC report basically stated that,”
“..they said it will create about 134,000 new jobs across cloud adopting organisations and service providers.”
– interview on ZB (12/12/24)
“Managing Director Vanessa Sorensen told Heather du Plessis-Allan they plan to train up 100,000 people over the next two years. She says it’s going to supercharge the country’s digital transformation and enhance data residency, security and compliance.” – VANESSA SORENSEN: MICROSOFT NZ MANAGING DIRECTOR ON THE NEW HYPERSCALE DATA CENTRE IN AUCKLAND’S WESTGATE, ZB
Notice the conditional language in job creation? Gross. Not net.
Holy shit. Listen to what she’s saying. She knows the labour market is about to be nuked by her and Bill Gates from a great height.
And it’s not even a debate, it’s a PR job.
Heather du Plessis-Allan (doing the breakfast show) reminds us she’s not really out for the public interest. The station is there to sell advertising like this. So rather than open a debate or watch out for what’s coming Heather just says “Brilliant stuff.” And, “Have a nice day, thanks for running us through it. Sounds incredible.” Part of Heather’s job is to know when not to think and not to talk.
New Zealand should be having this debate, should be getting ready for all the useless jobs to vanish. Massive displacement is on the way. Not even this blog is safe. In fact not even Newstalk ZB is safe because just about everything they do right now could be done by one of Vanessa’s robots. And maybe Glenn Hart to load CDs from time to time. If Heather thinks she’s getting Mike’s job permanently she might want to consider learning how to get really good at coding prompts.
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