• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    While you are not wrong about these different specialities within the trade, there can still be an effect. Let me illustrate:

    Suppose you like bananas but not apples. One day there is an apple disease that kills most of the apple trees leading to a collapse of the apple market. You feel relieved because you don’t eat bananas anyways. But you go to the supermarket and find that not only are the apple shelves empty, the banana shelves are empty too! Why? Well people still gotta eat, and not everyone is as picky as you, they switched to bananas and now the banana market is under supplied too. And it’s not like you can build a banana farm overnight.

    Back to electricians, if the salaries of data center electricians increases rapidly, you will find that those electricians who are qualified for both (even if it is just a very small number) might focus on data centres, straining the supply of residential electricians. Just like with banana orchards, it takes time for new electricians to enter the market, and those new hires will further be swayed to the data center specialty first, further straining the residential market.

    We can see a real example of this with the price of RAM. RAM manufacturers saw increased demand for data centre RAM so they switched focus to that market and it ended up drying out the consumer side supply, hence the surge in price. And just as with banana plantations and electricians, you can’t start up a RAM fab overnight.

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      13 hours ago

      wut? A Residential Wireman doesn’t even go into the space for Inside Wireman. Then there’s the fact that the space where an Inside Wireman works is tiny compared to the rest of the data center.

      What are you basing your opinion on?

      edit: bunch of butthurt Residential Wiremen in this thread apparently

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          18 hours ago

          Residential Wiremen are not qualified to be Inside Wiremen

          edit: I’m done with this. It’s obvious that the people arguing with me have no idea what construction work is like.

          • knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de
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            17 hours ago

            And residential Wiremen are unable to get the qualification to be inside Wiremen? Are there no inside Wiremen who worked at residential ones before? Are you serious?

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          18 hours ago

          They need more training

          edit: I’m done with this. It’s obvious that the people arguing with me have no idea what construction work is like.