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‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Who cares what these naysayers think, this data center will create as many as 26 new jobs!
And think of the extra tax revenue!*
*only from the income of those 26 people, because the data center business itself will get huge tax breaks for building in our state
Only from 5 of those people, because 21 of them will live in San Francisco and visit the new data center once a year or so.
And those 5 are janitorial staff, who are paid minimum wage and thus are not making enough to be taxed.
I know you joke and I did have a chuckle. The tech jobs offered by these projects are so few and far between it is truly laughable.
We’re fighting a data center construction by Google in our area. One of the major obstacles is that blue collar workers, electrical hvac etc, all believe this will bring them new jobs and continued work in maintenance of the facility over the years.
They aren’t necessarily wrong on that point, and it’s a challenge to convince them that infrasound noises they can’t hear will make them sick over time.
I wish they were this excited about building and maintaining solar and wind projects instead of data center generators, but alas, many of them are constantly subjected to propaganda painting green tech in a negative light.