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A warehouse or factory would have more jobs, but would also bring massive truck loads to the local roads and corresponding pollution. The low staffing of datace
by morpheuskafka 5mo ago
A warehouse or factory would have more jobs, but would also bring massive truck loads to the local roads and corresponding pollution. The low staffing of datacenters means that one they are built there is little transportation impact.
- thefz 5mo agoAnd there is almost zero value generated locally.
- tartoran 5mo agoThe tax will address that.
- znpy 5mo ago> A warehouse or factory would have more jobs, It would add low value-added jobs though (unskilled labor). Datacenters add high value-added jobs (skilled labor). Only looking at the headcount is shortsighted imho.
- oblio 5mo agoAren't DC remotely managed for almost everything? How does a DC in Paris, Alabama benefit the locals if 99% of the well paid jobs for it are done in the Bay Area?
- condis 5mo ago[dead]
- Rekindle8090 5mo ago[dead]
- eqvinox 5mo ago> Datacenters add high value-added jobs (skilled labor). The highest skill job an AI datacenter adds locally is electrician or climate technician. And not many of those.