OH Regulators Rule Data Centers Must Pay More Upfront Costs (And We'll See How Long This Stance Lasts . . . )

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1. The little secret about data centers is they create very few permanent jobs. Yes, construction jobs initially but ....

...by facility square footage compared with almost any other business operation, they are low job contributors. WA state, even before AI, saw the building of data centers happen rapidly in the eastern part of the state where there is lots of excess and therefore cheap hydroelectric power. The local school districts were panicked as they saw all this big construction and assumed there would be all these workers moving in with kids and a need for lots more classroom space. It didn't happen. First, there were just very few new jobs created. Plus, the tech types didn't find eastern WA state a very desirable place to live so kept their homes and families in the more culturally rich and green western side of the state and just spent a few nights in town when working.