Can't get the WF Securities publication this belongs to so it is hard to judge[1].
Brookings did a similar comparison but with control groups instead of against US totals. They say largely the same re: jobs growth, but with the note that hyperscalers have larger economic impact than colos:
For metro areas with strong labor markets and dense business ecosystems, data centers can deliver meaningful, though not transformative, economic gains. For rural communities, the positive impact is more complicated.
All in all, if I read between the lines of analyses by journos that probably do have access to all the gated stuff, then I'd guess that all this data is built specifically to argue a political/business goal and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle - it's all tradeoffs.
Can't get the WF Securities publication this belongs to so it is hard to judg
I spent 10 minutes trying to find it publicly too. I landed on FracTracker at some point which is pretty cool and, as you concluded with data center studies, seems politically motivated if not biased.
Can't get the WF Securities publication this belongs to so it is hard to judge[1].
Brookings did a similar comparison but with control groups instead of against US totals. They say largely the same re: jobs growth, but with the note that hyperscalers have larger economic impact than colos:
GT published their own thing[2] and found that the benefits are reaped by metro areas, not rural:
All in all, if I read between the lines of analyses by journos that probably do have access to all the gated stuff, then I'd guess that all this data is built specifically to argue a political/business goal and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle - it's all tradeoffs.
I suspect that it's gated through here ↩
And a gated paper ↩
I spent 10 minutes trying to find it publicly too. I landed on FracTracker at some point which is pretty cool and, as you concluded with data center studies, seems politically motivated if not biased.
Their arcgis with power infra is amazing.
Their photo galleries got me good.
Best case:
Residents get more jobs, more local tax revenue, and no meaningful increase in power or water bills.
Worst case:
Residents get few permanent jobs, higher utility costs, and their tax dollars help subsidize the data center.
what is a permanent job?
a data center career or a career related to one.
a lazy answer
https://twiiit.com/lfg_cap/status/2084614342981435793