Data centers aren’t the answer to Reno’s woes
After years of a declining gambling industry, Reno, Nevada — the so-called biggest little city in the world — is looking to remake itself, and part of that plan will include data centers. The New York Times takes a look at how Reno is looking to revitalize, and has attracted a huge data center storage facility from Apple on the outskirts of the city. But, as I reported in this 4-part series last week, while data centers can create hundreds, or even a thousand, jobs during the year-long construction phase, data centers generally only employ 50 to 70 full time workers when they are up and running. Apple’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina employed 67 full time “badged” workers in first year of operation; Facebook has 60 full-time workers for the first building of its two-building data center complex in Forest City, North Carolina. And these full time jobs tend ...
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