Data center proponents generally argue that the facilities will provide jobs

This is the biggest bullshit lie they keep repeating everywhere they are planning to build these monstrosities.

The fact is it will create a few hundred, 400ish Construction worker jobs for the build of the site, which is finite maybe 2 years. Not a stable long term job and the people building it probably are contractors that would be building somewhere else if that build didn't exist.

Afterwards the data center only provides less than 50 full-time high paid jobs, because the operational demands are very low.

This in no way compares to a new steel mill or other large scale factory that will provide hundreds and hundreds of jobs for multiple generations.

This shit is just lining already rich and upper-class pockets with more money they don't need. Not providing the lower or middle-class, who need jobs the most, with a decent stable income that can carry to retirement.

This is basically your local government saying, fuck you I want mine. Well tricking the working class. The people who are suffering from unemployment brought on by the very same assholes. They are trying to give hollow promises, for a yes vote. Fucking puppets with a corporate hand up their ass.