alt Hacker News> A warehouse or factory would have more jobs,
It would add low value-added jobs though (unskilled labor). Datacenters add high value-added jobs (skilled labor).
Only looking at the headcount is shortsighted imho.
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oblio • today at 3:45 PM
Aren't DC remotely managed for almost everything? How does a DC in Paris, Alabama benefit the locals if 99% of the well paid jobs for it are done in the Bay Area?
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> Datacenters add high value-added jobs (skilled labor).
The highest skill job an AI datacenter adds locally is electrician or climate technician. And not many of those.