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If they're creating that many jobs, it means most of them are construction work.

Skilled labor for sure, but not necessarily college educated.

How does this work out in the long term? Operating a data center does not require that many blue-collar workers.

I'm imagining a future where the US builds a Tower of Babel from thousands of data centers just to keep people employed and occupied. Maybe also add in some paperclip factories¹?

¹) https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

It's just lies they use to sell the idea that these profit driven corporations should be given massive amounts of money at the expense of the commons and public.

It's no different than sports stadiums selling the same idea to local governments:

"We'll create jobs."

"Mostly low quality jobs with poor benefits and minimum wages."

This is no different.

Whenever you hear about job claims you should be asking what quality of jobs?

I doubt these are permanent jobs. This project will create a ton of temporary work though!

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