I'm guessing the population of Lewiston would welcome an employer of 30 jobs

DrewADesign 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So maybe someone can open a new sandwich shop and accomplish the same thing without screwing everybody else in the process. Not only that, Lewiston probably doesn’t have a glut of data center talent seeking employment —I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that not a single person living in Lewiston when a project like that was approved would be employed there.

	▲	dawnerd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A sandwich shop would also be infinitely more useful to the population.

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gmm1990 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not if it drives up energy prices and makes other businesses that employ more people less competitive. Not saying that is the case but it’s certainly not a given

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unicornporn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are you saying that those thirty job will go to people currently living in Lewiston?

If so, thirty jobs are on the plus side. What's on the minus side?

	▲	tejtm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		that would translate to three townees for janitors the rest would be durn furiners from away * * further down east than Lewiston but, there was a time I was the damm foreigner from the big city.

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john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

imagine how many other 30-job employers could fit on the same land that the datacenter would take up.

a mcdonalds is probably 1% of the land and employs more than 30 people.

(the # of jobs angle is not the right approach if you are a proponent of new datacenters. there are much stronger arguments to be made)

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andsoitis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> a mcdonalds is probably 1% of the land and employs more than 30 people.

Fast food chains are damaging to human health.

	▲	john_strinlai 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		neat! replace "mcdonalds" with "specialty health foods" or "flower shop" or "independent book store" or whatever and my points remains unchanged: job numbers arent an argument in favor of datacenters, they are an argument against them.