Data centres don't create many jobs. In 2011, Facebook stated that its data centres create roughly 1 job per 790 m² [1]. Apple's planned data centre is 166,000

Data centres don't create many jobs. In 2011, Facebook stated that its data centres create roughly 1 job per 790 m² [1]. Apple's planned data centre is 166,000 m². That gives us a figure of ~210 jobs for this data centre. But that's based on a figure from four years ago, and given how aggressively companies have pursued automation and on-site staff reduction in data centres, it's likely that the 2015 figure is lower. Maybe a lot lower. [1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-employment-density-of-a-server-farm-or-data-center http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-employment-density-of-a-ser...