Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps (opens in new tab)

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> Owner of ICE detention facility [...]

Oh, right, of course these things are privately owned..!

I’d like to recommend Kate Beaton’s book Ducks to get a vivid feel for what these “man camps” are like. That book is about camps attached to oil fields in Alberta, but the “AI camps” described here sound very similar.

Flagrant clickbait, flagged. Headline makes it sound like concentration camps with AI wardens, but actually it's just normal temporary housing for construction workers building data centers.

  This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil 
  fields.

Its kinda weird to not see temporary workforce housing as some recent phenomena, especially given a recent TV show (I havn't watched it) about a particular railroad construction camp. Work that occurs in remote places requires holistic logistics for the workforce, similar to expeditionary warfare.

  Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the 
  construction of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States
  [...]
  chronicles the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers, mercenaries, 
  prostitutes, surveyors, and others who lived, worked, and died in the mobile 
  encampment, called "Hell on Wheels", that followed the railhead west across 
  the Great Plains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_on_Wheels_(TV_series)

They tried to fit a lot of ragebait into this article and headline, but the TL;DR appears to be that this company wants to build temporary housing near construction sites so workers don’t have to commute as far if they don’t want to. The only actually criticism of the temporary housing is that it’s “gray” but they note it has access to a gym. Clicking a link to the other article describing them says they have “free steaks” and access to golf.

My cousin works in construction and some times gets job where the money is great but he has to drive 2 hours to the site and 2 hours home or even more. Temporary housing seems like it would be helpful while doing those jobs.

If it's like fracking, the man-camps will become a hub for trafficking of camp-followers.

>AI man camps

Anyone who studied Engineering or Computer science already knows what this is like, lol.

I wonder how long it will take them to link the dots to join their businesses.

These man camp style minimal housing seem like a good solution to the housing crisis, but my guess is some bean counter has made it illegal to use these economical SROs for anything other than despotism.

Over/under on "all of these 'detainees' are sitting around doing nothing" converging with this?

Saint peter dont you call me cause i cant gooooo

I owe my soul to the compary stooooore

Work in a camp run by the people that also run concentration camps for undesirables, what a tempting proposition...

Arbeit macht frei

Feels like one of the solutions to get rid of poor people as a whole?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA011569...

What kind of dystopian horror is this?

Is it some sort of the camps in the Terminator movies? /s

Obviously they'll force detainees to build data centers in due time.

This is the ultimate dream of Late Stage Capitalism. The vast majority of detainees are non violent, most aren't even 'criminals' aside from overstaying a visa. There's a parallel with California's prison firefighter brigades.

In order to pay the merciful State for your own imprisonment, you shall work on the data centers. Oracle demands it. Sure on paper it's a voluntary program, but Oracle as promised better food in exchange for work .

It's not completely out of the realm of possibility for a detainees to end up manning these detention facilities as well. You'd be surprised at how many skilled workers, many of which actually have status, end up getting detained anyway.