Blackstone president predicts AI will create "huge boom" in blue-collar jobs

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[00:00:00]I also think this is a huge boom in blue-collar employment certainly over the next 5 years. Our company QTS and data centers a year ago had something like 10,000 people working at job sites.

[00:00:14]By the end of this year it'll be 40,000.

[00:00:17]There is between the energy, the physical infrastructure, the data centers, the reindustrialization, something very powerful happening. Now, where these jobs are may change because the middle of the country is where the bulk of this physical investment is happening. And the other optimistic thing to me about the AI is what it'll do for healthcare. I was in Boston last week at MIT with a researcher who's focusing on screening fallopian tubes and then using the AI to identify these sticks that are the precursors to ovarian cancer. To have that kind of technology, the advances, what it's going to mean for human beings, it's incredibly positive. We tend to just focus on the negative glass half empty.

[00:01:00]I'm also in the camp that there're going to be some amazing things that come out of this.