[zdragnar]

Breaks for projects of that scale are often negotiated ad hoc- the list break is more of an advertising move than anything.

I would bet dollars to donuts that if a mid sized company wanted to build a $30 mil data center, local and state governments would be willing to work something out, especially if the location would bring construction and long term jobs and other investments to an otherwise underserved area.

[ghaff]

>and long term jobs

Very few. A datacenter might only have a few dozen people as I understand it.

[londons_explore]

Lots of jobs during build. But after that, 10 guys on a security rotation 24/7, 5 guys on 'take stuff out of boxes and put it in racks to replace failed components' duty, and 5 more to do all the certifications and paperwork (who might be offsite).

[ma2rten]

I think an Amazon datacenter is going to have a few more people than that because it's so huge. I just looked at the satellite image of their Ashburn datacenter in Google Maps. I saw maybe like 50-ish cars.

[ghaff]

Which, by way of context, is about how many people work at two McDonalds'.

[DetroitThrow]

One thing to note, as mentioned in my reply to your main comment, is that many of those cars are not owned by local jobholders in the community but rather contractors which travel to various data centers across the US as maintenance requires.

[DetroitThrow]

Some writing on this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-data-centers-fail-t...