alt Hacker NewsEvery tech company building out datacenters would pay in a heartbeat to add commensurate power to the grid. The cost is not an objection.
The problem is, there are insane and dumb regulatory barriers to adding power plants or interconnects. THESE ARE THE SAME PROBLEMS FACTORIES FACE WHEN RESHORING PRODUCTION, you should treat datacenters as the face of reindustrialization. Instead of complaining about using resources, we need to focus on solving our inability to provide infrastructure needed to support economic growth.
Replies
Hnrobert42 • today at 2:20 AM
> Every tech company building out datacenters would pay in a heartbeat to add commensurate power to the grid. The cost is not an objection.
Yeah. I'm going to need a source on this claim.
➕ show 2 replies
Given that datacenters seem to much more manpower efficient, that seems like a poor trade, to the point it might not be worth viewing them similarly. I'm seeing info reporting about 1 job per 5000 square feet of a datacenter after completion, and 1 job per 800-1500 square feet for a factory, depending on type.
More jobs is good, but if we're going to look at this through the lens of industry returning, it's a lousy return, even before factoring in that we probably lost a lot more factories than we're gaining datacenters.