sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoOregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needswww.kgw.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1426arrow-down11
arrow-up1425arrow-down1external-linkOregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needswww.kgw.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squarespaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up96arrow-down15·edit-23 days agoThat will absolutely decimate Oregon’s job market when companies take all 20 data center jobs to another state.
minus-squareAreaKode@riskeratspizza.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up85·3 days agoDATACENTERS EMPLOY HUNDREDS OF WORKERS!!! For a year or two, during construction. All contractors. After construction, what? Maybe a hundred people on-site? Why will no one think of the poor, starving, trillion dollar companies? It’s NOT FAIR that they have to pay the same amount as the POORS! /s
minus-squareBurninator05@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoDont forget that every last one of the construction workers will come from out of the area and are supporting families someplace else.
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·3 days agoNot a hundred. We’re talking a dozen on a busy day. Last time I was on-site I didn’t see another soul for hours.
minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoThe “imaginary-never gonna happen-will use twice as much power as the state of Utah uses combined” Utah mega datacenter might, might have 100 people employed in it eventually. Maybe.
minus-squareoffconstantly@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoHow dare you! The data centers in Prineville supports dozens of families! /s just don’t ask where the reservoir went…
minus-squareEarlOfSam@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoChrist, Prineville Please tell me you’re joking. I’m sure you’re not, but it’s like slapping a Amazon Super Center in Drain.
minus-squareDerpenheim@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoThe 2 years its under construction, sure. Then it staffs them with like…20 people. Oh no.
That will absolutely decimate Oregon’s job market when companies take all 20 data center jobs to another state.
DATACENTERS EMPLOY HUNDREDS OF WORKERS!!!
For a year or two, during construction. All contractors. After construction, what? Maybe a hundred people on-site?
Why will no one think of the poor, starving, trillion dollar companies? It’s NOT FAIR that they have to pay the same amount as the POORS! /s
Dont forget that every last one of the construction workers will come from out of the area and are supporting families someplace else.
Not a hundred. We’re talking a dozen on a busy day. Last time I was on-site I didn’t see another soul for hours.
The “imaginary-never gonna happen-will use twice as much power as the state of Utah uses combined” Utah mega datacenter might, might have 100 people employed in it eventually.
Maybe.
Not even a hundred workers.
How dare you! The data centers in Prineville supports dozens of families! /s just don’t ask where the reservoir went…
Christ, Prineville
Please tell me you’re joking. I’m sure you’re not, but it’s like slapping a Amazon Super Center in Drain.
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The 2 years its under construction, sure.
Then it staffs them with like…20 people. Oh no.
At most.