Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p...
by MaxHoppersGhost on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:30PM
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Go check out how many people live in some of these places and how many jobs there are. Even 20 additional tech jobs is a massive boost to these areas.
Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p...
by detourdog on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:35PM
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The construction jobs are likely not local but migrant construction workers. The restaurants and hotels my see a bump during construction.
During normal operations though, you would have a handful of technicians, probably a facilities manager and frequent contractor visits, probably onsite security.
The facilities contractors may come from far away for maintenance projects, so maybe you help support local hospitality businesses.
Most of the highly paid work at the datacenter will happen remotely.
Every so often, there will be a hardware refresh, but you probably bring in people from elsewhere to do those, if it doesn't make sense to have the onsite techs do it little by little.
Certainly, there's a lot of equipment installed, and any locality with property tax on business equipment should get value from that. But otherwise, almost any other light industrial business would have more employees.