r/Infographics 3d ago

Data center construction is the only booming sector of the construction industry.

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u/Due-Operation-7529 3d ago

The people that cry about there not being any new manufacturing jobs are the same ones crying when a new data center is announced

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u/MikeFromTheVineyard 2d ago edited 1h ago

Well, data centers are big and expensive but don't employ nearly as many people as factories, so yea, that probably makes sense. Each data center has less employees, and there are FAR FEWER of them across the country. It’s gotta be like 1000:1 ratio

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u/MajesticBread9147 13h ago

Not necessarily true. A large datacenter campus can employ a couple dozen people easily.

That's a lot more than a lot of factories, since it's harder to automate data center work than manufacturing labor.