Are you saying any industry that brings in net new jobs with above median wages is bad? Or just ones with few employees and high additional property tax revenue?

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easterncalculus 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When the new jobs number increases to four (or even three) digits people will take that more seriously.

	▲	simianwords 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Loudoun county generates ~1B USD from taxes annually from data centers. That's equivalent to 30k jobs paying 40k usd annually. Is that enough?

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cdrnsf 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm concerned with the ones that create temporary jobs, few permanent ones, drive up water and electrical rates and then help deskill other industries.

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pesus 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many jobs are created? And how many jobs were also lost because of AI? A few jobs created vs thousands or more lost isn't a positive.

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hansmayer 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> that brings in net new jobs

Ah yes, those invaluable tens of jobs created by DCs....

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simianwords 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The economy is not a jobs program. Stop thinking about it that way. Think in terms of taxes generated instead.

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hansmayer 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But it was not my argument, was ot?

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loeg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It wasn't mine. You sort of created it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978872 .

	▲	hansmayer 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Really, wasn't yours? I mean you literally used "net jobs created" as an argument ?

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bell-cot 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If we could magically guarantee that our [starry-eyed|gullible|treacherous] political leaders didn't give back most of those property taxes before the DC even broke ground...