AI Takeover Looms: Half of Entry-Level Jobs Gone and a Trillion-Dollar Data Center Boom!

The Youth Risk Behav­ior Sur­vey (2013–2023) reveals a trou­bling rise in per­sis­tent sad­ness among stu­dents, reflect­ing broad­er soci­etal shifts. Once a tick­et to suc­cess in the 1960s, col­lege degrees no longer guar­an­tee jobs, with AI poised to elim­i­nate half of entry-lev­el white-col­lar roles and poten­tial­ly spike unem­ploy­ment to 10–20% in the next 1–5 years, per tech CEOs. Trump’s Star­gate ini­tia­tive, backed by a $500B invest­ment from Ope­nAI, Soft­Bank, and Ora­cle, aims to build mas­sive AI data cen­ters, with $1T more pro­ject­ed over five years. His Mid­dle East trip secured fur­ther invest­ments, but con­cerns grew about a tech­no­log­i­cal singularity—where super­in­tel­li­gent AI could out­strip human con­trol, rais­ing fears of human extinc­tion as warned by experts like Stephen Hawk­ing. Sen­a­tor John Fet­ter­man ques­tions the impli­ca­tions in Con­gress. Explore the AI-dri­ven future, its impact on jobs, and the tril­lion-dol­lar data cen­ter race.

• Youth risk behav­ior sur­vey, “between 2013 and 2023 the per­cent­age of stu­dents who felt per­sis­tent­ly sad or hope­less increased, con­tin­u­ing an increas­ing trend we have seen in pre­vi­ous years.” In the 1960s a col­lege degree meant a good pay­ing job but things start­ed to shift in the 1970s. In 1985 every kid went to col­lege. Now it is “why should I go to col­lege” because a degree doesn’t guar­an­tee a job. There will be a major shift. 
• Just in the last cou­ple of days, there is a major explo­sion for every­one to try to pre­pare you for AI. It seems since Trump has come back from the Mid­dle East all the net­works are try­ing to prep you for AI takeover. Tech CEO says we could see half of entry lev­el jobs dis­ap­pear and 10–20% unem­ploy­ment because of AI. Ready or not, AI is start­ing to replace peo­ple. Remem­ber COVID, there were not enough work­ers for the stores. Employ­ers are not going to allow that to hap­pen again. They are not going to pay Fast Food work­ers $22/hour. 
• In a tech­no­log­i­cal con­text, sin­gu­lar­i­ty refers to a hypo­thet­i­cal point in the future where tech­no­log­i­cal growth becomes uncon­trol­lable and irre­versible lead­ing to a rad­i­cal and unpre­dictable trans­for­ma­tion of real­i­ty. It’s often asso­ci­at­ed with AI reach­ing a super­hu­man lev­el of intel­li­gence and capa­bil­i­ty poten­tial­ly sur­pass­ing human com­pre­hen­sion and con­trol. Con­cerns and impli­ca­tions, poten­tial for human extinc­tion Some experts includ­ing Stephen Hawk­ing have expressed con­cerns that a super­in­tel­li­gent AI could pose a threat to human sur­vival. 
• A white col­lar blood­bath. AI could wipe out half of all entry lev­el white col­lar jobs and spike unem­ploy­ment. 
• When Trump came into office he had a press con­fer­ence. Tech giants to invest up to $500B for new US data cen­ters. Ope­nAI, Soft­bank and Ora­cle will fund the cre­ation of 10 facil­i­ties dur­ing the ini­tial phase of the Star­gate ini­tia­tive with an option to increase to 20. Then Trump went to the Mid­dle East for a tril­lion dol­lars invest­ment. The US data cen­ter mar­ket is pro­ject­ed to see invest­ments exceed­ing $1 tril­lion over the next five years. The invest­ments are in data and chips. Hyper­scalers com­pa­nies like Ama­zon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are dri­ving a large por­tion of the data cen­ter demand with sig­nif­i­cant invest­ments in hyper­scale facil­i­ties. The Star­gate project, a joint ven­ture by Open AI soft­bank and Ora­cle, aims to invest $500 bil­lion in AI data cen­ters. 
• The increas­ing demand for AI and cloud com­put­ing ser­vices fuels the need for more data cen­ters. The ongo­ing dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion across var­i­ous indus­tries is dri­ving the need for robust data infra­struc­ture. Gov­ern­ments are active­ly pro­mot­ing data cen­ter devel­op­ment through tax incen­tives stream­lin­ing process­es and pro­vid­ing sup­port for pow­er infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment. 
• Keep in mind the Mid­dle East is the first for­eign trip that Trump makes. Trump took every major AI investor with him on the trip. 
• The man to bring it up in the Sen­ate is John Fet­ter­man. What hap­pens when we reach the sin­gu­lar­i­ty point? All the invest­ments are great but what will hap­pen?