Bear Brief, 10 July 2026

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All right.

Sounds great.

I was working on a job that had barely enough manpower to get anything done.

I was chatting with one of the electricians on the job, and the topic of data centers came up.

Mind you, we were both in trade unions.

He told me that part of the reason they were so short-handed was due to the fact that the data centers were paying $20 an hour over journeyman scale.

The conversation I had with another electrician previously claimed that they were paying double the journeyman scale to build these data centers.

To give you a better idea, that would be a little under $70 to $100 an hour take home in our area

this is pretty good money it's nice this is pretty good i think that

it sounds all right

yeah

i've been known to run some wire on monday yeah sounds all right

hi guys

it's bear i'm live from the data center they'd be pissed

You'd be pissed.

There'd be a lot of, I feel like there's like an army of robots inside of the data centers.

Probably.

Everybody keeps talking about how, you know, the data centers are actually about water.

And I think there's definitely an aspect to that.