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data center and wind turbines don't need much maintenance. that's why both can be offshore. they need some low skill maintenance. so you shouldn't expect to see a tech hub growing around a data center or wind turbine farm. and they are not built there of course. data center is just a warehouse with server containers. wind turbines are probably built in germany

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Sure, I’m sure you are 200% correct. This will be nothing but a resource drain, and will have $0 economic benefit whatsoever.

That’s why so many regional and international governments clamor to attract datacenter projects. Because they are trying to get absolutely nothing out of it whatsoever.

The datacenter and wind mills are just built in another country, flown in by helicopter, plopped down, turned on, and subsequently ignored and 100% self-maintained.

I don’t think you can see beyond your dislike of wind power to actually understand the economic impact of large projects like this.

Where did you get the idea that the viborg datacenter is offshore?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/03/apples-viborg-den...

I’m sure the construction of those other datacenters will also mean nothing to the economy.

Also, as we have seen in The Dalles, Oregon over the past 15 years, the inevitable increase in fiber and power capacity to this region, which will attract dozens of other datacenters to the area, will also have zero economic impact to anybody whatsoever.

Nor will there be any privacy benefit to the Danes knowing their Apple data is stored within the borders of their nation or having lower latency to these services. The only reason this is being done is to destroy the world with wind turbines.

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