Re:Google Wants $15M in Tax Breaks to Build a Data Center in...
by notatoad on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:36PM
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>There won't be 2,000 jobs to build a datacenter, that's wildly exaggerated
There could be, they probably didn't pull that number completely out of nowhere. But there certainly won't be 2000 jobs for the duration of the construction. or 2000 new jobs.
I'm guessing it just creative counting, like if a crew of four people comes out to plant a couple trees by the front door, works for 4 hours total, and has no other involvement in the project, that's 4 jobs.
There could be, they probably didn't pull that number completely out of nowhere. But there certainly won't be 2000 jobs for the duration of the construction. or 2000 new jobs.
I'm guessing it just creative counting, like if a crew of four people comes out to plant a couple trees by the front door, works for 4 hours total, and has no other involvement in the project, that's 4 jobs.