Not only would I suspect that an aluminum plant employs far more people, it is an attainable job. Presumably minimal qualifications for some menial tasks, whereas you might need a certain level of education/training to get a more prestigious and out of reach job at a datacenter.

Easier for a politician to latch onto manufacturing jobs.

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squigz 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm pretty sure both the plant and the DC have both "menial" jobs and highly-skilled jobs.

You don't just chuck ore into a furnace and wait for a few seconds in reality.

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		No doubt there is exquisite engineering and process control expertise required to operate an aluminum plant. However, I imagine there is extensive need for people to "man the bellows", move this X tons from here to there, etc that require only minimal training and a clean drug test. An army of labor vs a handful of nerds to swap failed hard drives.