[morpheuskafka]

A warehouse or factory would have more jobs, but would also bring massive truck loads to the local roads and corresponding pollution. The low staffing of datacenters means that one they are built there is little transportation impact.

[znpy]

> 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.

[oblio]

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?

[eqvinox]

> 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.

[thefz]

And there is almost zero value generated locally.

[tartoran]

The tax will address that.