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Can't say having a competitive tax rate doesn't bring jobs!

Data centres don't create many jobs. In 2011, Facebook stated that its data centres create roughly 1 job per 790 m² [1].

Apple's planned data centre is 166,000 m². That gives us a figure of ~210 jobs for this data centre. But that's based on a figure from four years ago, and given how aggressively companies have pursued automation and on-site staff reduction in data centres, it's likely that the 2015 figure is lower. Maybe a lot lower.

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-employment-density-of-a-ser...

What about the constructions jobs that it takes to build and maintain those data center warehouses?

Temporary jobs

Well there currently 0 jobs in that area, so I fail to see you point.

The double Irish isn't a competitive tax rate. It is a tax evasion scheme. Just some links I found quickly:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/opinion/ireland-still-addi... http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/abolition-of-double-...

Corporation tax is low at 12.5% which is probably what the parent is referring to.

Actually it turns out corporations pay more tax in Ireland than they do in countries like France or Canada: http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/ireland-tax-haven-1796050-N...

If one can get rid of the large amount of work that goes into preparing taxes, many companies would prefer a simpler system as opposed to one riddled with loopholes for things like propane and natural gas tax breaks for mint farms; I am looking at you Washington!

The Double Irish is being phased out slowly. Here's a NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/business/international/ire...

This got announced at the last government budget - I could not make any claims about the economic repercussions one way or the other.

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