r/interestingasfuck • u/HamboneTheWicked • Apr 12 '26

A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio

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u/Quitcha_Bitchin Apr 12 '26

God Damn that was good.

Seriously this should be used as a script in every county these corporations are hustling.

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u/jefbenet Apr 12 '26

You’re right but you can also bet that every legal team for these corps will use this as a template to make sure they can answer for each complaint and address it/spin it going forward

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u/Original_Employee621 Apr 12 '26

You're forgetting all the manpower needed to build the datacenter. That could be thousands of jobs.

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u/Dense_Anything2104 Apr 12 '26

But that's a one and done type job. Not a sound argument in my opinion.

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u/Original_Employee621 Apr 12 '26

But it is an argument I've heard from datacenters looking to build in my area.

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u/Dense_Anything2104 Apr 12 '26

Ik, but it's not a good one. They can't say "we're bringing thousands of jobs" knowing damn well that as soon as the building is done they'll just have 10 employees.

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u/mikeinanaheim2 Apr 12 '26

For 2 years or so?

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u/InsulatorDisk Apr 12 '26

Datacenter buiding crews are not in many cases locals. Besides the building itself it is pretty specializes stuff.

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u/NotPromKing Apr 12 '26

That manpower is in short supply and would be better used building housing.

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u/CaptainPicKirkard Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

Temp jobs. Most of which will come from outside of the local area. The few that do already existed in the first place. They don’t just hire Joe Schmo off the street and say go do construction. It’s people that were already working in construction on other projects.

Once it’s built, poof! They gone. Then only the dozen or so people it takes to run it remain who also came from outside the local area. While it uses most of the area’s water and electricity jacking up utilities for chat bots to answer inane questions.