alt Hacker NewsThe services provided by a data center do provide jobs. My job for one, and I'm guessing a majority of posters here too.
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Normal datacentres, sure, but these services are already running from the existing datacentres.
These purpose built DCs in the recent AI craze doesn't. A handful of security guys, handful of technicians and that's pretty much it
they said "that many jobs" not "no jobs".
compared to something like a car factory, data centers do not provide that many jobs.
(and the jobs are of significantly different nature)
Many of which are bullshit jobs... Just because something generates a job, it doesn't make that something automatically a good thing with a net impact on our world and society. There are many more boxes to tick.
As long as we don't see the damaged areas around data centers than all is fine, right?
Where have I heard this before?
But thanks to the magic of the Interwebs, most of those jobs don't have to be in the city, region, or even the same country as the one where the DC is located. So for a local politician, most of those jobs won't get them reelected.