Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta's Future
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Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta's Future

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202643 min
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(0:00) Dina Powell McCormick joins The Besties! (1:52) Impact of Meta's data center in Richland Parish, LA: $50K teacher checks, revitalizing a small town community (11:52) How Meta is alleviating data center concerns: pollution, electricity, water, noise, aesthetics; Misinformation campaigns (19:57) America's Workforce Academy, the job growth in re-industrializing America (26:58) Meta's recent social media settlement, new rules for teens (35:25) Meta glasses and Zuck's AI strategy Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering data centers, compute and software for AI...

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A trailblazing leader in government, business and philanthropy. A former presidential advisor to Donald Trump, Dina Palma Kormic joined Meta platforms as president and vice chairwoman. She'll help lead the company's massive AI expansion including data centers, investments

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and global partnerships. Palma Kormic's background is exactly where Meta's new bottlenecks are. There is a transformation in humanity coming. Nothing can stop that now with this technology.

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3.5 billion people every day are on meta. I think we all know that the next three years could be the whole game. Women are the secret sauce.

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