Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
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Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords Well, that development is shocking!
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@troublewithwords There are big differences between terminating low voltage (480, 600V) and medium voltage (4160V, 7200V, 13.8kV) cables. Low voltage you strip back insulation and land, maybe connect a crimped on connector. Still requires being skilled and knowledgeable.
With medium and high voltage, there are a number of additional steps required to terminate. Stuff likes cable shields, semiconducting (as in isn’t totally an insulator) layers, building up insulating stress cones, understanding why you need to do stuff certain ways, things like that.
That’s just looking at the most boots-on-the-ground stuff.
@DeltaWye @troublewithwords Username definitely checks out.
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I imagine they would need certifying by a competent authority before connecting any HV cable.I imagine there are prescribed courses you must attend...or maybe Trump has cancelled the safety requirements
@PeterF @troublewithwords Theory tests are just tests. I'm sure they can prep people desparate for work in 2-3days.
Most countries I know about also have an experience requirement, but those systems assume that there might be a single bad actor signing someone's paperwork for a bribe. Google has the capacity to build their own rubberstamping pipelines for that.
With >10kV systems at least it's a rather quick evaporation. -
Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords that's shocking
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Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords @ParadeGrotesque Filing this under “that can't be a good idea”
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Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords
"You're absolutely right! Touching this wire did vaporize you. My mistake." -
Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords Well, this is going to end with some more regulations written in blood... Inexperienced people trained by Reddit, what can possibly go wrong?
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Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords
"The C-suite was complaining that too many in-house electricians were dying in their datacentres, so I asked what there were doing about it and they said they just go to the unemployment centres and get another load of people to train with AI."So I told them it sounded like they were feeding the poor to the substation, and their PR department started crying."
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Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords@wandering.shop on-the-job learning and experience is the best way
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Just heard* Google doesn't have enough high voltage electrical workers for its data centers, so it has decided to use AI to quickly train up noobs to deal with transmission lines handling thousands of volts.
I need to uninternet for today. It makes me so tired.
* Edit: To clarify "Heard" means from the mouth of a C-level executive at Google, not through the grapevine.
@troublewithwords corporate AI end users: now upgraded from Accountability Sink to Alternating Current Sink
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