“The impacts of data center development are real and long lasting. A state/community should be equally (if not more) motivated to recruit data center developments as it would any other typical economic development project. Incentivizing a 1,700-job corporate headquarters would have the same impact has incentivizing a $1 billion data center.
Data centers also have a significant positive impact on community development. They tend to require enhancements to infrastructure such as roads, water, sewer, and to a lesser extent power. This infrastructure development tends to support higher employment uses and, in some cases, accelerates employment growth that otherwise would not occur in the foreseeable future.
Although data centers tend to entail minimal job creation — generally in the 20- to 50-job range — this minimal job impact comes with minimal costs of services for roads and schools. Schools are not expected to experience much (if any) strain because of the lack of new students brought about by a data center development. Thus, overall, a data center can become a community’s single largest taxpayer. “
From Area Development https://www.areadevelopment.com/data-centers/Data-Centers-Q1-2015/impact-of-data-center-development-locally-2262766.shtml
Check out this older article to see how many jobs a data center can grow in the local economy. Why data centers have a big impact on the economy
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