There's a huge """secret""" Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa that appears to be in the finishing phases of completion. I talked yesterday to a union worker who is moving to Des Moines to work on a new Microsoft data center there tonight, it appears that work is drying up at this data center here and a lot of the travelling blue collar folk are leaving this area.

I wonder if this data center coming apparently partially online is a part of the problem?

Also, after this he is likely to work on an Amazon fulfillment center next year - impressed by all the (albeit temporary) blue collar jobs created by FAANG at the moment!