Sources
- Census release (Oct 1, 2026): https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/pdf/release.pdf
- Census private construction table (includes Data center row, Table 3 SEs): https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/pdf/privsa.pdf
- Census definitions: https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/definitions.html
- Census Feb 2024 notice that Data center is published under private Office: https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/pdf/pr202402.pdf
- BLS PPI, Aug 2026 summary: https://www.bls.gov/beta/nextgen/ppi/producer-price-index-2026-09-10.htm
- BLS PPI release, Sept 2026 (Oct 15, 2026): https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf
- BLS series via FRED, NSA: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/PPIFDC ; SA: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/PPIDCS
AI art is never going away, get over it
This you?
OP is pretty much the only contributor to [email protected], so forgive me if I don’t take their post here as good faith.
The damage has barely started. We’re all on the Titanic, and we can already see the ice berg coming.
Nah, lol. The stern is already lifting in the air. Soon the ship will break in two and sink.
Pretty sure they’ve been handing out life jackets to the rich and famous for a while now.
Yep, like floating spacex and making it be part of index funds against the rules.
and yet, your post history continues to show us you love providing value to the shareholders pushing this shit. Curious.
What in my post history makes you think that?
and yet paradoxically the only thing keep us out of recession :\
when you think back to how easily the entire global economy exploded in 2008… the last 18months makes zero fucking sense.
We’re already in a recession, they’re just manipulating the numbers with this bullshit.
How can you tell the recession already started?
*gestures at everything.
On an individual basis when wages don’t keep up with inflation, it feels like a recession. When retail sales are down, services spending is down and business spending is down, except for ai, it feels like a recession.
It’s a K shaped economy. While the wealthy privateers and traditional metrics say “everything is fine, don’t worry” you have other hard working people sliding down hill. Everyone feels it, the traditional numbers don’t show it because the real economy and private markets are detached.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession_shapes#K-shaped
K shaped economy. By all traditional metrics the biggest winners in the economy are disproportionately propping it up.
Thanks for the keyword. Looked into it, and it seems that the economy is in a weird state now. VC money is causing inflation, which causes issues with everything that isn’t directly tied to AI. All the AI related companies are doing just fine, especially chip manufacturers. All the other industries are suffering. The number of bankruptcies is also alarming.
This is what happens when they extract money away from all the things that fundamentally support a strong society.
Every dollar invested in something is a dollar not invested in something else. It’s called opportunity cost.
I have no idea how many great wonders could’ve been built with the several trillions used to try to make LLMs into some kind of God.
Is there a lot of crossover between residential and commercial construction in the US? Where I am it’s generllally 2 different industries.
I was about to ask what the chart even means, then somehow my stoned ass suddenly found herself back in elementary school learning about how to read charts
I am very stoned right now, and therefore very stupid right now
If anything, just think of my comment as an algorithm boost
