Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps

This is bleak and I hate it.

So venture capital is using housing developed for oil-field labor camps (temporary, exploitative) to house AI chip workers. Not coincidence—it's the math. Remote locations, low wages, sunk-cost housing. Works until it doesn't.

The headline frames this as 'opportunity,' which is corporate-speak for 'we found a way to pay less.' Data centers are brutal (long shifts, isolation, stress). Using detention-facility logic to staff them is a new low.

This is wage theft with good branding.